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[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Fascinating.

Messi earns around $1.5 million *per week* from football + football-related commercial deals.

Who do you think builds the stadiums he plays in? Makes the kits he sells? Mans the cameras which broadcast his "product" to the world? Cleans the dressing room he changes in? Makes the food supporters buy in the stadium? Brews the beer fans buy in the stadium? Sells the beer fans buy in the stadium? Cuts the grass he plays on? Makes the boots he wears and the millions of replica boots he sells?

All of these people's labour goes into making him $1.5 million a week.

What do you think the ratio of his weekly earnings is to those people? He earns around $80 million a year from football alone which is approximately 5 times the average top 500 US CEO so by your logic he is FAR more "exploitative" than they are.

The fact that you don't understand this proves my original point perfectly. Thank you for your help.

[yannispappas @yannispappas]

Sweden didn’t prove socialism works. It proved capitalism can fund a generous welfare state until that welfare state gets too heavy, at which point 🇸🇪 itself turned back toward markets. It proved that progressive immigration policy works better in an argument, where you get to sound pious, than it does in real life. At least as things stand now.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.

Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.

But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.

They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.

It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.

Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.

[sansobaluns 😋 @sansobaluns]

@MsMelChen It was most definitely a penalty

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Woke 2.0 is coming. It's starting already.

Rather than foregrounding identity politics, it will push:

1) Affordability (Marxist materialism);
2) Anti-corruption (ironic but an excuse to go after Trump);
3) Anti-Israel (pro-Palestine).

It will be warm to political violence.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“When two people have a conflict, the progressive ‘anti-racist’ needs to know the races of the two people before he decides which side he is on. The ‘anti-sexist’ feminist needs to know the genders of the two people.”

https://t.co/KqIKst9Le5

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

I have argued about this with friends. Some believe that I overestimate the return of Third-Worldism as an ideology, and they insist that voters care about material issues such as wages, jobs, and housing. They are not wrong. Material precarity is real, it becomes politically dangerous when inequality remains unaddressed, and a nation should worry when its young people cannot work, cannot form families, and cannot plan for their future. However, however, however, and however, the political energy that is now forming is not purely economic. It blends genuine social grievances with an ideological reflex rooted in post-colonial and anti-imperial narratives.

https://t.co/ecxa1Qyvxa

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Recently elected socialist Democrats really aren’t that radical, says CNN. And yet they support abolishing the police, trans surgeries on children, and expropriating apartments. A 150-year-old socialist strategy of deliberately deceiving the public explains their success.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

Elizabeth Warren will be shocked to learn that 67% of Democrats are apparently "right-wing extremists," according to a 2023 New York Times/Ipsos poll.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

😂The people who claim we can run our ultra-high-energy civilization on such garbage are lying. Their goal has been, since Malthus and then Heidegger, to dismantle our high-energy civilization, not "sustain" it.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

It’s all just repetition of a handful of words deployed as blunt instruments to silent dissent. That’s all you learn how to do in these majors, which dismantle the capacity to do anything else in those trained in them.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

There is no intellectually respectable, grown-up version of gender ideology that survives the basic tests of fact and logic better than the propaganda books they give to first graders. A Supreme Court justice has just confirmed this.

"I'm a girl brain in a boy body!" says the I AM JAZZ picture book -- and so does Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Reminder that there are two types of anti-data center activists:

- Supporters of the Chinese Communist Party
- Stooges of the Chinese Communist Party

Anti-data center activism helps America's enemies and facilitates America's downfall.

[Ulf Wiger @ulf_wiger]

Man skulle kunna dela upp högern i några olika typer:
- "Ingenjörshögern", som vill förstå hur saker fungerar, och försöker identifiera principer för ett stabilt och produktivt samhälle. Dessa syns ofta argumentera att de förkastar vänsteridéer "för att de inte fungerar".

[ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa]

“Design the worst festival panel you can think of”

[Skipster @FarRightSkip]

@KonstantinKisin I just don't understand this weather. I've got a hybrid car, only use paper straws and make sure all my avocados are responsibly sourced. I blame selfish people who want to keep comfortable. It should be illegal.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

125,000 years ago, the Thames was full of hippos.

2,000 years ago, the Romans grew grapes on the Scottish border.

Today, British councils force people to rip out their aircon because of "unprecedented climate change".

https://t.co/DhOjKIDFxN

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

It’s crazy how we found a way to purify literal rocks into 99.9999999% pure silicon, then have magicians pull it into crystals, then etch a trillion little runes on it, put some electricity into it, and now it has 130 IQ

and the most common thing to do with this miracle is email

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

One of the dumbest things about the debate over “nationalism” is that the same people who tell you it’s toxic and dangerous in the West will then dance on stage in a nationalistic frenzy over a country so dangerous they can’t even live there.