Steven Challis

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Reminding Again: Zohran's family still keeps this mansion in Uganda in the richest neighborhood of Kampala surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.

[Andrew Guenther @codebrewed]

I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.

[Ax🕸️ @wireheaded]

@jngo_alt @AmanitaFugax Because monocause people are
1. Genuinly miserable (Why do care about this when there's a genocide happening?)
2 Eat up all the oxygen in the room leaving no room for things that actually matter to the community
3 Want to actively make things worse so they can do their revolution

[Cabot Montana @AmanitaFugax]

Pro Waymo, pro data center, pro nuclear, pro solar, pro train, anti zoning, pro housing has to be one of the most correct and unelectable combinations in America

[_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ @st_louis_stan]

The strategy is that women want maximum ability to display their bodies in a sexual way in order to attract desired men but also want maximum deniability so they can scold anyone who notices their body that they don't want to, or points out what they're doing, this strategy is mostly unconscious which is why it makes you feel insane to point it out and have women deny it (because most of them aren't even consciously aware of what they're doing)

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Evil ideas have horrible consequences.

[Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis]

Just posted to the EA Forum: https://t.co/Wm5h8N7E6A

Another benchmark: Scott's donations would have generated 50-100x the QALYs if provided as cash transfers to the global poor via @GiveDirectly.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

What causes #poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes #prosperity?

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Andrew Carnegie donated $2B (in current dollars) to build 2,500 libraries. Most of these beautiful buildings still stand today, over a century later, anchoring downtowns across America.

MacKenzie Scott, on the other hand, incinerated $26B on woke NGOs with nothing to show for it. Nothing she has funded will endure a year from now, let alone 100.

It would be tragic, if it weren’t so disgustingly wasteful.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

She could've given five thousand Michelangelos five million dollars, instead it all went towards educating homeless people about climate change racism.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Since it’s widely cited that it only costs $20B/yr to end homelessness in the US - this amount should’ve done it right?

We fixed all the problems in the country, or no?

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains.

Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world.

But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics.

(BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)

[Hunter Horsley @HHorsley]

This is a 2 minute video about taxing the wealthy.

There is no mention of programs it will fund. Or why the tax dollars are needed. Or what the money would be used for. Or how those less fortunate could be supported to themselves become wealthy.

The benefits are no longer the point.

The implicit message is about punishment. Punishing those doing well is now good politics.

Sign of the times —

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

still don’t understand what’s so special about Elon Musk’s money that his $1 trillion dollars would solve every problem on earth, but the $7 trillion dollars the US government spends annually hardly solves the problems in America

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

• You and your friends would steal 80% of it
• you’d come in 300% over budget and still spend 3x what you taxed
• you’d start 2 useless departments that soak up billions yearly forever going forward
• the entire mess would be riddled with bribes, fraud, and fake daycares
• you’d be proposing a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then permanent wealth tax to deal with the “gross underfunding” of your corrupt “childcare for everyone” empire.

The icing on the cake? Childcare costs in the US would increase by 40% in 2 years.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

if @elonmusk paid 100% of his net worth ($1.4 trillion) as a tax it would only cover federal government spending for 77 days. this isn’t a tax problem…

[Mark Walker @markwalker5555]

One of the most laughable things on the internet is all the people in our government who have amassed a 39 trillion dollar debt telling us that if they could just tax Elon’s wealth, they could fix everything they have broken. 😂🤡

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Hello Senator....

This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .

"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."

That is quite an achievement.

In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress.

It has been a long time since you held a private sector job.

AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot.

During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike.

And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector.

You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged.

But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are.

We would never know otherwise.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If this works, I'm treating myself to a volcano lair. It's time.