Stephen Rivas

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@tlm202103 @libwhataboutism @ChiT0wnSports23 @chellgod Seems like you’re making an intent argument…

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@tlm202103 @ChiT0wnSports23 @chellgod If it puts a player in danger then every header with an incidental headbutt is a red card.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

If the tech billionaire class really believes, "We are at war with China over AI, and we can't afford to lose it, because they'll hurt us, if they win" then they would want closed borders and they wouldn't be replacing American tech workers with H-1B's.

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@RyanHoliday Incredible levels of hysteria for a grown man. Get a grip.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Women and children first

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Gavin Newsom promised to build a new 911 system for $132 million within three years. In reality, he's spent $500 million across seven years for a system that state officials have now declared totally unfit for use. Another Newsom disaster.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They not like us

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Comey is THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE FBI. But he didn’t know? So sick of this bullshit man. I could understand some mainline wine aunt not understanding. Try that there. An FBI director tho? My goodness. So much fatigue.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[Dale Stark @DaleStarkA10]

Nothing’s more frustrating than trying to explain to your left-leaning friends that their entire worldview is based on a series of well funded scams.

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Hasan Piker is the best argument against birthright citizenship

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

I watched the Tucker and Buckley interview. Found it interesting. Here is what I don't understand from "Uncle Buck" and many more millions who agree with him.

He raised the issue of "no accountability" for Russiagate. Trump himself complains of this often. Federal prosecutors within DOJ sabotaged cases, making it so that the statute of limitations had expired. When indictments are brought, as against Comey, federal judges make up new rules. Trump is furious that there hasn't been accountability. Why blame Trump for this? Surely insiders like Buckley and Tucker understand how insiders can manipulate the system.

What is Trump supposed to do, given the constraints of his office? I've thought about this often, have talked to many smart lawyers about it. He doesn't have a lot of plays here.

Buckley also raises a lack of accountability for the J6 show trials. Trump free the oppressed. He dismissed pending cases. Men who were looking at 30 years in prison are out. Some of those dumb asses he pardoned went out and did more crimes. Which makes us all look like assholes. Trump took a huge risk, one I am grateful for.

Tucker covered the Douglas Mackey case. Biden tried to send an innocent man to prison for posting a meme and being effective against Democrats. How many more cases would have been filed against Tucker and others, had Trump lost in 2024?

I understand the Iran war objection, and the overall complaint that Trump is far too comfortable mocking Christ and Christianity. Christians should push back more aggressively. Buckley and Tucker talk of WASP values often. But those values are why were are in this predicament.

"Taking it with a stiff upper lip," breaks down when the rules of the game changed and you have to throw a tantrum to get results. I don't like this new cultural. And? This is politics. You win or you lose. Given the state of affairs today, losing means death by the Bolsheviks.

It was Biden who spied on Catholics and send grandmothers to prison to protesting abortion. These FACE Act cases were barely covered. I discussed them often.

If the choice is having someone who posts memes vs. someone who wants to throw Christians into prison, perhaps everyone should ask if maybe our brains have become digitized. What happens on a screen is not the same as real life.

The Truth social post may seem offensive to some, it was to me, but sitting in a prison cell isn't in the same universe. I'll take the infantile behavior over wrongful imprisonment. What serious person would not?

There are some other issues raised, Charlie Kirk being chief among them. My own views are more hardline than Buckley's or Tucker's. Charlie Kirk would be alive if far left wing political violence had been treated like the crisis that it was and is. Other than me and a few other people in 2015, who was talking about this? Almost no one. There is more than enough accountability to go around.

Voting for Trump in 2024, and 2016, and 2020, was the obvious choice.

What is the alternative? Democrat super majority? Turning the U.S. into LA and letting cities burn down (literally)? Illiterates driving 18 wheelers and smashing into our families? Jobs that my friend's dads had growing up being taken by the same people?

You think the Red Green Alliance won't line your families up like they did to Tsar Nicolas?

I am almost 50. Men in their 60's are responsible for the conditions we live in, as are men my age. We sat out too many elections. We don't do enough now to get out the vote.

Charlie understood that politics isn't a debate society. You need to discuss ideas, and win the narrative battles, obviously, but winning an argument doesn't mean all that much if people are unwilling or unable to use political power.

There's a lot to say about Trump, I've said plenty.

What is everyone doing to change electoral outcomes? That's the only question today that matters.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Speak English.
Be self-sufficient.
Revere our history.
Embrace our culture.

Otherwise, don't come here.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

This is a nationwide scam. Many local reports covered it, and there have ben other prosecutions. Scam culture is being imported at scale. Close the border, abolish every visa. If someone is truly a genius, fine, make them prove it.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Last week, Gavin Newsom denied that large-scale fraud was happening in California and—against all available evidence—said there were "no missing homelessness funds." Now he is trying to claim that he is cracking down on fraud. He can't have it both ways.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

Last week, Governor Newsom denied that widespread fraud was occurring in his state. Now, he's trying to claim credit for fighting it. Totally incoherent—he is clearly worried that fraud will sink him.

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@LibertyLockPod Serious question. If it turns out the killing of Khamenei is the end of the “war”, and Iran and the region improve, doesn’t this seem a bit hysterical?

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@Realrclark25 Can’t imagine what it’s like to be such a pussy.

[Stephen Rivas @swrivas14]

@ComicDaveSmith Liberty isn’t free. And y’all don’t have the stomachs for it but claim to defend it.