TruthSeeker

Champion of Freedom & Liberty. Separating noise from signal. Stoic mindset, socratic methods, empiricism, intuition, curiosity; mindful of biases, blindspots ♎️

[TruthSeeker @Sigma_Stoicism]

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[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

"I like to quote the founder and proprietor of Our World in Data, who said that the papers could have had the headline: “187,000 people escaped from extreme poverty yesterday, every day for the last 30 years.” But you never saw that headline, and as a result, a billion people escaped from extreme poverty. One of the most significant events in human history, and no one knows about it."

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Why don’t any of the “End the Occupation” anti-Israel politicians ever speak about Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus?

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Remember in 2021 when a bunch of Nobel laureates "spontaneously" got together and wrote a letter saying that Biden's proposed spending bills would reduce inflation? That was awesome.

Yes, it's funny that Biden and his people couldn't even get the talking point correct, but it's pretty pathetic (and corrupt) how these Nobel prize winners are just ready to jump whenever the Democrat party needs them.

Biden's total Build Back Better plan didn't get passed as one bill, but they broke it up in chunks and passed much of what was in the original bill. The Infrastructure Act. Inflation Reduction Act. Two trillion dollars.

It is widely regarded as fact now by economists that the Inflation Reduction Act did not reduce inflation. The Nobel laureate geniuses were wrong. Imagine that.

Did these Nobel prize winning clowns apologize for getting it wrong? Of course not. Here's what they did instead. They got together before the election in 2024 and wrote a letter in support of Kamala Harris's economic plan, just like they had done for Biden.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

France isn’t just high-tax. It’s the world champion of inventing new ways to take your money.

348 different taxes. That’s not a tax system. That’s a fiscal labyrinth.

Even Germany runs Europe’s biggest economy with 60 taxes.

Most of those extra taxes raise almost nothing. Hundreds of low-yield levies exist mainly to complicate life, create jobs for administrators, and give politicians another lever. Complexity is the point.

When the code is this thick, only the well-connected and well-advised can navigate it. Everyone else just pays.

This is the chart that should make every French taxpayer, and every investor considering “Choose France,” stop and ask: is this still a country that wants people to innovate, create jobs, work, and stay?

[Kosher @koshercockney]

British Barrister and International law expert Natasha Hausdorff explains to you exactly what is happening with Israel.

Under International Law there is no “Illegal occupation” by Israel.

None.

Worth sharing to educate others, especially at this moment

Via @triggerpod

[TruthSeeker @Sigma_Stoicism]

Tech is driving everything…

[TruthSeeker @Sigma_Stoicism]

According to the Economist, AI has created 1 million new jobs in the U.S. This contradicts the prevailing narrative.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

Every single military act by Hamas from 10/7 onward violate the laws of war, given their lack of uniforms, targeting of civilians, and so on. Hamas's existence is one continuous war crime, and yet those who tend to bray most loudly about alleged war crimes have been working feverishly since 10/7 to ensure Hamas stays in power in Gaza.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Yes, the expansionism of the red dot is unbearable. The green areas are terrified!

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

It has now been proven beyond any possible doubt that "global warming" since 2000 is due to changing cloud cover, (albedo) & that CO2 has had zero effect on climate. Net Zero is stupidity.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Every Republican I ever voted for said they would shrink the govt. Trump actually did it.

[Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry]

NOT WIDELY REPORTED: The collapsing Federal government workforce, which fell in August to 2.67 million employees, the lowest level in more than 60 years, going back to May 1966.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

After losing World War 2, Germany lost 25% of its territory and 14 million Germans were ethnically cleansed from Eastern Europe.

And yet there hasn’t been a single case of Germans hijacking planes, blowing themselves up, or committing terrorist attacks like Palestinians.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Everything

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

“people wouldn’t commit crimes if they could just afford food”

they would, actually.

Finland studied this by giving people UBI, and it had precisely zero impact on crime

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Good news you probably haven't heard:

The Great Barrier Reef's five best years of coral cover in the 40-year record are the five most recent.

After decades of predictions of its imminent demise, the reef stubbornly refuses to die.

My new @latimes op-ed:
https://t.co/YWYdK7CKuJ

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Isn't it entertaining when naive US leftists cite Nordic countries as examples of "democratic socialism"?

Scandinavia has more billionaires per capita than the US, and Sweden abolished wealth and inheritance taxes.

Ignorance is clearly a prerequisite for being left.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

Modern leftie:

Hates Bezos. Orders everything on Amazon.
Hates data centers. Uses AI.
Hates Musk. Drives a Tesla.
Hates corporate America. Loves Starbucks.
Hates fossil fuels. Loves flying to experience the world.

Hates capitalism. Loves the fruits of capitalism.

[Hashem @HashemAllMighty]

Jews came from Judea. Arabs came from Arabia.

Jews reclaimed a sliver smaller than New Jersey.

Arabs conquered 11+ million sq miles of other peoples’ land—20% of Earth’s landmass.

Can someone please remind me again who the colonizers are?

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

The popular left narrative that in the US only the super-rich are doing well, while Europeans are better off than Americans, is wrong. Americans excluding the top 1%, and even the poorest 20%, are much better off than their European equivalents. Europe's bad choices make it poor.