Ryan Sliva

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[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance. - @naval

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@JetBlue wtf are you guys doing. You email saying my flight is delayed by 3 hours. Then your chat with us feature says my flight is on time. Then I ask to speak to someone and it says the wait time is 1-1.5 hours. Never flying this airline again.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

Over the past 5-10 yrs, both of our main political parties have standardized their communications strategies around blaming some Enemy or another (Immigrants! Oligarchs! DEI! The Epstein Class!) for voters' evident dissatisfaction with the state of the country.

Don't intend to comment here on the socio-economic validity of those arguments.

Do want to point out that accepting them is disastrous from the point of view of an individual trying to improve his or her own life.

It is true that our lives are shaped to a large extent by structural forces beyond our control.

But the key to achieving anything (a family, professional success, a home, whatever) is to act *as if* we are in control.

Anything else is a recipe for passivity, failure, and unhappiness.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@FOXSports these edits you guys are doing introducing each country in the round of 16 before their games are straight 🔥🔥🔥

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

Here, the brilliant @Miss_Snuffy from London explains Zoran Mamdani Mania better than anyone in America has so far done so…

This is a great, but terrifying speech…
😱🤦‍♂️🤮🥲

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@FantasyPros Caleb Williams

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@matt_gray_ IG

[ego death @this_Just_in89]

incredible

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@revilowright @moseskagan @loganb lol

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@moseskagan @RHMultifamily @loganb You sure about that? By just about every measure, the latest sales tax increase was extremely unpopular and unlikely to pass. Yet here we are.

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@moseskagan @loganb Isn’t voting already reserved for citizens? Why would we ever even allow a chance for illegals to vote by putting this on the ballot? Our state is insane.

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

Dear @FOXSports, please stop allowing your guys at @FTFonFS1 to talk about soccer. It’s truly hurting the sport in this country. That’s how bad they are.

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@moseskagan Don’t forget that in LA the city profits off keeping people homeless. It’s quite despicable.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They have imported voters to win

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

This is what you get when you have an uneducated, entitled group of individuals that is jealous of anyone that achieves more success than them.

[Kanahusky🐺🐾 @firezhusky]

@WSJ @WSJFreeEx @WSJopinion @EliseStefanik Capitalist? Nah robber baron is the correct term.

Inventor? That was his workforce.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

we could pay for childcare for three and four year olds tomorrow if the democrats would tackle fraud. but they won’t, because they don’t care about three and four year olds. they only care about power, and the fraud is how they buy their power.

[Ryan Sliva @ryansliv]

@RachelBitecofer @spencerpratt You need to travel more and turn off the tv if you think this is true.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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