Paper_Blossoms

Flower lover, paper crafter, grateful to God

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

'Why is a flat-screen TV affordable and a college education not?...Because Congress has spent 60 years trying to make college affordable and has spent zero years trying to make TVs affordable.' By @reason's Aaron Brown, Michael Mendelson, @CliffordAsness https://t.co/ffQC5XQmIy

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

@ABC Did Manhattan go under water in the last year, and I just missed hearing about it?

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

Laws against "hate speech" actually enable hate, because they make people afraid to speak out against evil. People didn't want to be accused of Islamophobia, so they stayed silent, and 250,000 girls paid the price. But it's not "hate" to point out that Muslim men rape white girls, and that Sharia is completely incompatible with Western law.

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

Hate speech laws enable this evil. People were threatened with being charged with hate crimes/speech if they speak out and say the truth: these are Muslim rape gangs.

There should be no such thing as hate speech laws.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Rape Gang Inquiry Report.

https://t.co/EuKgGWBRhS

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

This is the single greatest continuing horror that has occurred in the West in my lifetime, and yet most people don’t even know about it because western media and governments are complicit and don’t want to be called racist.

This was done by Islamic immigrants, invited in by suicidally stupid politicians.

Mass immigration of degenerates who religiously justify the rape of children in the name of Allah.

It’s still happening!

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

@libsoftiktok Her profile also lists an affiliation with Grand Canyon University? Isn't that a Christian college?

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@SteCK1878 @libsoftiktok Arrange to meet in the parking lot of your police station.

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@realMaalouf Can he really be saying this??

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@CynicalPublius Joey Jones hates it too.

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@BeGreatEducate1 @SteveKornacki I cited several facts, which you apparently just want to ignore.

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

I don't need educating by you.

The whole point is they don't just "recognize indigenous history." They have students recite that the land was stolen. They don't just teach "about racism." They teach that America is racist. I've heard young people who think that whites in America invented slavery and that we are the only country that practiced slavery. (In fact, more whites were taken into slavery into North Africa than blacks were sent as slaves into North America.) Slavery was practiced by virtually every civilization until Western civilization ended it.

They teach climate alarmism, when there is no crisis. In science, "consensus" doesn't matter. Facts matter, and the fact is that the Earth's climate is determined by the Sun, and it is gradually changing, as it has always done. (And the "consensus" that is often cited is itself generated by bias in awarding grants.)

As far as the anti-ICE walkouts, of course they want to present them as student-led, but the students are prompted by teachers and are just repeating what they have been taught. I'm all for the first amendment, but students should do any protesting after school hours, not during class time. They call ICE the Gestapo, when ICE officers are merely enforcing the laws passed by Congress.

Learn to spell "empirical."

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

@caritaboykelly @SteveKornacki Lefty teachers are the ones with blue, green, or purple hair. The ones with trans flags in their classroom. The ones who read land statements. Just look on Libs of TikTok for video after video that lefty teachers have posted on their own social media accounts.

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

In WA, where I live, many schools read land statements to start the day, teaching kids that they are on "stolen land." They're taught that the US is racist, that the US is causing a climate "crisis" (there is no climate crisis, just the Earth's gradual cycles). Several schools in my area just sponsored anti-ICE walkouts. On and on.

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

@TheRabbitHole Capitalism is a bakery that makes pie after pie after pie. We don't have to argue over whose slice is bigger. We can just make more and more pies.

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@muthaPNW Every day is flag day at our house too!

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Ten reasons wealth taxes don’t work:

1.Europe already ran the experiment and quit. Twelve OECD countries had wealth taxes in 1990; only four do now. Those that still have wealth taxes don’t have CGT or IHT.

2.Norway proved how dangerous they are. A tiny rate hike was meant to raise ~$146m; instead $54bn of wealth fled and revenue fell by ~$448m net.  They hit the opposite of the target.

https://t.co/Ghgo6h9iLW will hit regular people. Governments typically bring in taxes on the “super rich”, then when it doesn’t work they lower the threshold.

4.Britain already wealth-taxes by stealth. Council tax, stamp duty, dividend tax, frozen thresholds, CGT, 40% IHT, luxury tax, private school tax - we have a diffuse wealth tax wearing a dozen costumes.

5.Wealth is a guess, not a fact. Income hit a bank account; wealth is an opinion about future value. You end up taxing and then litigating based on arguable estimates, every single year.

6.Most people can’t tell wealth from income. The politics sells because the public conflates “owns £10m of illiquid business” with “earns £10m” - they’re nothing alike.

https://t.co/DczbvSoKuF punishes illiquidity. Paper-rich, cash-poor founders must strip dividends from their own companies to pay - taxing ownership by gutting the thing that makes jobs.

8.The mobile escape; the rooted pay. Norway’s most-taxed man left for Switzerland in a weekend.  The regional business owner and the homeowner can’t so they get the bill.

https://t.co/6Vrty4i5F3 causes capital flight. More super-rich Norwegians left in 2022 than in the previous 13 years combined.  Capital is the most mobile thing there is.

https://t.co/5nMADSFvbh eats the seed corn. Wealth is just deferred investment the capital funding the next hire and the next business. It raises little, invites avoidance, and drains the capital base. 

BONUS: 90% of what we call wealth now is intangible - intellectual property, data, algorithms, startup venture valuations, brand equity etc. The days of wealth being houses, factories and materials that can be seized are long gone. If you make your country anti-wealth you are basically making it anti-competitive in the modern economy.

[Paper_Blossoms @Paper_Blossoms]

@charlescwcooke @AezzieUwU Also "Guilded Age" 😂

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@bkheywood @elonmusk I'm very grateful Elon saved free speech!

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@ianmSC Their singing is wonderful, but I also love that they sang the national anthem in such a way that the crowd could sing along also--instead of singers doing vocal gymnastics that prevent the crowd from singing along. This was so beautiful!