SlimShandy

Eyes Wide Open

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

This clip on YouTube is now at 2.3 million views.

[Handre @Handre]

Rothbard didn't just publish another economics textbook in 1962. He torched the entire discipline and rebuilt it from first principles, using only logic and human action as his foundation.

You won't find a single graph, regression, or statistical model in Man, Economy and State's 987 pages. Rothbard rejected the mathematical positivism that had infected economics since the 1930s. Instead, he constructed economic theory the way Euclid built geometry: starting with self-evident axioms (humans act purposefully) and deriving all economic laws through pure logical deduction. No empirical testing required. When you understand that people choose between alternatives to remove uneasiness, you can deduce the entire structure of market prices, interest rates, and capital formation without collecting a single data point.

The book systematically demolishes every interventionist policy you can imagine. Rothbard proves that minimum wage laws create unemployment, rent controls cause housing shortages, and antitrust legislation protects inefficient competitors. Not through statistical studies that opponents can cherry-pick and debunk, but through ironclad logical demonstration. When government forces wages above their market level, employers hire fewer workers. This follows necessarily from the logic of human choice.

Most economists today remain trapped in the positivist methodology that treats human beings like particles in a physics experiment. They build elaborate mathematical models that predict nothing and understand less. Rothbard handed us a complete science of human action that explains every economic phenomenon from first principles.

The establishment ignored the book for good reason: you can't refute pure logic with statistics and computer models.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

During the Biden Admin millions of asylum cases were filed for people who were not refugees.

They were economic migrants. I can sympathize with their desire for a better life. But America as a country cannot accept everyone who wants to live here.

Now we have to deal with this and while it may cause emotional distress for many people, the alternative is to continue to bury our schools and social systems with that many more potential "citizens".

And that was the reason, aside from a desire to save the world at any cost, that led to the Open Borders policy. Bring in migrants, give them free stuff then transform them into Democrat voters.

It was an effective one of you ignore the horrific destruction to our civil society. But if all you wanted was power, then free voters paid for with Other People's Money was perfect.

Well it wasn't perfect and now we are seeing what it takes to fix it.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Ayn Rand: "Capitalism is in the process of committing suicide, and if we want to stop that process, we must understand it's reasons.

No political economic system in history had proved it's value so eloquently, or had benefited mankind so greatly as capitalism, and none has ever been attacked so savagely and blindly.

Why did the majority of intellectuals turn against capitalism from the start? Why did their victims, the American businessmen bear their attacks in silence?

The cause of it is a primordial evil, which to this day, men are afraid to challenge. The morality of altruism. [SUICIDAL EMPATHY]"

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

My buddy @ziegenfusscw & his tank got blown off a bridge in Iraq

Iran supplied bomb making materials & advanced IEDs that killed & wounded 1000s of Americans

We made this video 10+ yrs ago to show how long Iran has been killing Americans

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

The Trump team articulated a clear mission in Iran.
Destroy the nuke program, ballistic missiles & conventional weapons that safeguard them

If those conditions allow a new & better government
Good.
But that is not the primary mission.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

https://t.co/GFfob61imm

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

The authors report that in 2020, Biden's staffers tried to get videos of him speaking with voters about key issues on Zoom for campaign content. But “he couldn’t follow the conversation at all.” A special team was tasked with editing *hours of footage* into usable *minutes*. 3/

[VoxDemosthenes @VoxDemosthenes]

@boomstickbabe Just saying…🤔🤔🤔https://t.co/sZ0Pn5tkjR

[SlimShandy @slimshandy7]

@oponiak @IhabHassane Only if he’s lucky, likely he’s tortured dead disappeared by Hamas cuz that’s what they do to dissenters, there is reluctance to revolt against them for legit fear of torture death for the dissenter and their fams … you may be STEM smart, but your post is supremely ignorant, TBH

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

A legend.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

White liberals and black people were asked if they think voter ID is racist. Result:

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

You know the American People have had enough when an ai video of Senator Elizabeth Warren running from the FBI with bags of cash gets over 45,000 Likes

We are sick of politicians getting filthy rich insider trading, laundering our money to NGOs and selling us out

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Bill Maher gives this tour de force commentary against woke culture.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

This is off the scale brilliant.
♥️🎶

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Joe Rogan just figured out that climate change is a hoax.
Better late than never!

[SlimShandy @slimshandy7]

@KatTimpf Completely agree Kat! I’ve noticed since your baby belly been growing your laughter on Gutfeld has been deep true pure and much more from the heart soul and belly … not sure why, but def good for your growing baby to feel and hear your belly laughs, and for all us to see!! 💞💞

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Never forget

[SlimShandy @slimshandy7]

@JDVance @realDonaldTrump @SenatorBaldwin @SenRonJohnson @RepMarkPocan @GovEvers @wisdoj I Support Elon Musk and the D.O.G.E. - Hands Off This American Treasure! Let Him Work and Deliver in Days What America Has Demanded for Decades!