Time-Tested Investing

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[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@ramit You keep making this about class warfare. Whether rich or poor, why do they owe more to the government? And what evidence do you have that Mamdani spends money more wisely than private citizens, or his peers in Texas or Florida?

[Dr Keeneland Dan @fatbaldguyracin]

How is this not 9-0

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@DanielSLoeb1 Simply incredible he thinks that story reflects well on him.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

One of the most remarkable acts of heroism was that of Witold Pilecki. Volunteered to enter Auschwitz, with the hope that his intelligence would reach the Allied command (it did) and they would act (they didn't, or couldn't).

He survived Auschwitz, fought the Nazis on the battlefield, only to be later killed by the Communists.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

The media dude who gave a green light to mass social protests in the midst of a pandemic thinks we've forgotten his double standard.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Attacking the widely-respected Dr. Tony Fauci while holding potential superspreader rallies throughout battleground states.

Seems like a great way to win back those seniors and women voters concerned about how he’s handled the pandemic.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@KS_Scallywag @Mike_M_Klotz @AlexBerenson No, voting for Mamdani was dumb AF.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

Master class in PR

[Bill Cortese @BillCortese]

@LVMH_Presse The English version for those who would like to read it.

It is worth the read.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

Those who dunk on Musk for his historically optimistic forecasts re: the timeline of his achievements, but not the substance, only serve to remind everyone just how incredibly talented he is.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

One of the amazing things about these clips is that the people talking to Musk never say, "In 2015, you said that we were a month away from self-driving cars, and that full autonomy was three years away. In 2016, you said, etc. etc. Why should anyone believe your forecasts now?"

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@tmo_melonmaster @Gentleman_Ways Only because his grandchildren studied tapestry and porcelain.

[Suzanne_Smith @SuzanneSmith126]

Advice from the young C.S. Lewis: "Keep clear of introspection, of brooding, of spiritualism, of everything eccentric. Keep to work and sanity and open air – to the cheerful & the matter of fact side of things. We hold our mental health by a thread: & nothing is worth risking for it. Above all beware of excessive day dreaming, of seeing yourself in the centre of a drama, of self pity, and, as far as possible, of fears.”

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@bscholl Singapore's health plan is not much different. Not exactly self-insurance, but incredibly affordable and effective. And there's an option for premium care, but it's rarely needed. Someone please bring it to the US.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@daviddunn177 Not so fast. England appears to be manipulating crime data in the same way the US has. Police reports contradict the crime "surveys," and indicate that crime has risen, not fallen, since 2010.
https://t.co/pnEZ7JH1Zv

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@moseskagan Well said. The corollary: they've fallen into the Marxian view that work is drudgery. While I'm somewhat sympathetic to that view in our modern, corporate economy, where many jobs are rote and unsatisfying, it doesn't have to be that way. Work can be creative and fulfilling.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

"What was a small organization providing 20 or so men shelter each year, with $25,500 in revenue in 2018, grew to operate six interim housing sites serving about 200 people at a time in 2024, with more than $5 million in revenue, largely from taxpayers, according to federal tax filings...

...According to a Times review of public and internal records, over three years, the nonprofit paid more than $1.7 million to Croom’s two for-profit businesses that provided food for the shelters and, in its most recent tax filings, did not disclose her ties to them as required."

Homelessness Industrial Complex

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy.

It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy.

For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice.

Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc.

As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love.

To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.”

As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings.

When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder.

When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good.

Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them.

In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.”

It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@ConceptualJames @thewaronbeauty Are you suggesting we should not read authors who are brilliant but flawed?

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

232 years ago today, 16 humble Catholic Carmelite Nuns effectively put an end to the French Revolution’s Godless reign of terror in France.

How did they do it?

They died singing praises to the Lord and shattered the atheistic delusion that has overwhelmed the psyche of a nation

[The War on Beauty @thewaronbeauty]

The past is becoming a foreign language

[Time-Tested Investing @nedhawley]

@GMErectheus @charlesmurray False.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

I'd put this single paragraph from G. K. Chesterton up against any self-help book out there