Andrew Behlen

Not Captain Picard. Just some dude who tries really hard to think for himself. Usually fails

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

I had AI Draw my Bio LOL

[wanye @xwanyex]

There’s a reason the workers at Starbucks don’t want to go off and start their own co-op coffee shop, but would instead rather unionize at Starbucks

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

@PeterAPatriot @EndWokeness More people die from no AC in Europe than guns in US.

I don’t know what that means. But it means something.

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

@GoatDeehere I mean, on some level I guess it’s good we have a black man who doesn’t know how the depts of corrections works.

On the other hand, very on brand to lie for clout and solidarity with a murderer.

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

you have to think of the “Michelle Obama is a man” as a meme

it’s not serious

think of it as something harmless like posting videos of a guy getting shot to death on a college campus in the replies of the tweets of his widow

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock.

We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great.

We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really.

We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much.

We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too.

We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable.

We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all.

We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead.

We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job.

You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest.

Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team.

Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know.

Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside?

Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

When you tell people that America is simply a set of propositions they remain loyal to their real countries

America is a place for them to make money or gain influence, it is not a people to which they owe loyalty

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

it's just a soccer game, you might say. but that's exactly why this strikes me as so insane. there are zero stakes, the easiest "I care about america" in the world, and they still can't support our country. in fact, they seem to see any demonstration of support as a liability.

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

@AuronMacintyre So North America should just always host this huh.

The exchange has been great so far.

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

@JillianMichaels To use an overly blunt comparison:

It’s just hitler youth. No different

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

This is truly one of the most dystopian things I have ever seen. 😔

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Making fun of Herman Cain’s death: acceptable.

Calling Clarence Thomas the n-word: acceptable.

Doxxing Supreme Court Justices: acceptable.

Wishing death on a sitting President: acceptable.

Celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk: acceptable.

Making fun of Erika Kirk because she’s not mourning the way you think she should: acceptable.

Calling Michelle Obama a man: UNNACCEPTABLE AND MUST BE CONDEMNED IN EVERY WAY IMAGINABLE BY EVERYONE WHO IS EVEN REMOTELY INVOLVED!!!!!

[Andrew Behlen @VanBehlen]

@wimachtendink @GrantrGregory @shortmagsmle Hello fellow Obama -> Trump voter !

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow.

All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted..

THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite.

Bam - homelessness solved.

The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

Oh no not a spectacle of physical daring & vitality

I miss being a Serious Country where a corpse president invites a circus of trannies to jiggle their implants on the White House Lawn

[Costa Kapothanasis @CostaKapo]

The first trillionaire was the U.S. federal gov. The irony is, it actually has the liquidity that Elon doesn’t have. It actually has the mandates to solve problems and it doesn’t. There is no one more pro trillionaire than the left

[varrock @varrock]

Elon has enough money to buy me a chipotle burrito right now, but he won't because of his immeasurable greed

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[Dirty Texas Hedge @HedgeDirty]

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

[Jay 🕋☪️✈️ @jay_kobbe]

Dems will look you straight in the face and tell you this is evil while they advocate to steal more of your money to pay for hospice scams in California

[Perma Banned ထ🔨 @GiveMeBanHammer]

Actually, about this:

Elon once offered the UN $6 billion for World Hunger in 2021 - on the condition that the UN provided Open Source Accounting and allowed him or anyone else to track and audit exactly where the money was spent on.

Which I think is a fair request considering that UN had multiple high-profile embezzlement cases such as what happened in Somalia in 2010 and Ethiopia in recent years. There's even one being actively probed right now in Sudan.

UN has not have a good track record of monitoring where other people's money go to, and that's an understatement.

The UN's response? They said they would at best, offer summaries and high-level category reports...which is not very helpful. It was also not going to be an open ledger, so no one outside of UN leadership could see where the money would go to.

So...the offer fell through because the UN was unable to provide trackable details on where the money goes to, making auditing extremely difficult. The rest is history, which is now being actively memory-holed by you OP.

Sure hate Elon that he bought Twitter, at least be fair.