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[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

#Hugodejongekanniks is exemplarisch voor de overheid:
Kost miljarden;
Smijt miljarden oncontroleerbaar over de balk;
Is niet te vertrouwen en liegt het volk en parlement voor;
Pretenties zijn belangrijker dan behaalde doelstellingen.
VERTROUW NOOIT DE OVERHEID!

[Erik de Vlieger -Tweep des Vaderlands @DevliegerErik]

Waar staat de ‘D’ eigenlijk voor?

[henk westbroek @henkwestbroek]

Omdat Elon Musk een lul is, hebben de nederlandse pensioenfondsen geen aandelen space x willen kopen. Ze hadden voor hun deelnemers weliswaar in 1 dag 19 procent winst kunnen maken, maar principes mogen best wat kosten. Als die met andermans geld betaald worden.

[Sieta van Keimpema @SietavK]

We zijn nog gekker dan gek

[Bert Brussen @bertbrussen]

Ontluisterend. Hoofdredactie https://t.co/H8BbY4Xyex (DPG Media): "Ja! We zijn in de eerste plaats moralist en dan pas journalist!"

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

https://t.co/NuBup8rMK7

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Bas Paternotte @baspaternotte]

Wie zich afvraagt waarom burgers soms moeite hebben onderscheid te maken tussen lobby, politiek, ambtenarij en bestuur, heeft hier een perfect praktijkvoorbeeld. https://t.co/9UcOoVsPsb

[Kevin Patrick Mahaffey @dropalltables]

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

[𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕄𝕠𝕤 🇺🇦 @BartMos]

Als je in een contactadvertentie direct begint over je steenrijke vader en over je drie, met stijlgevoel en goede smaak ingerichte huizen.
Hoe ‘gewoon’ noem je dát dan, vrouw?

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

Even een paar meisjes in hun nek prikken. BRB.

[Maarten van den Berg @mr_Smith_Econ]

Dit is dus desinformatie @MinisterKGG

Elektriciteitsverbruik stijgt vrijwel niet.
De kosten exploderen wel.

Bron: @BM_Visser / Entrance

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

@SenWarren https://t.co/70vPokulL6

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.

Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.

SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.

$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

@TomvanderLee https://t.co/70vPokulL6

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.

Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.

SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.

$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

@Denkjewel Beetje jaloers herverdelingswappie uithangen is makkelijker en vereist veel minder talent, doorzettingsvermogen en inzet en de risico's alles kwijt te raken zijn minimaal.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires very angry at trillionaire

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

https://t.co/LmGDnZexPu

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

@TomvanderLee https://t.co/6X5DnzKHkc

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

@SenWarren https://t.co/6X5DnzKHkc

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[David Galbraith @daveg]

Painfully dishonest degrowth piece. Here's a teardown.

1. The headline promises maths that isn't there.
"We've done the maths" but the piece contains no calculation. Just two borrowed statistics and a policy wishlist.
2. The 92% figure isn't a measurement, it's a definition.
"Excess" emissions means anything above an equal per-person share of the carbon budget going back to 1850. Define the rules that way and the North is guilty by construction. Pick a different baseline year or allocation rule and the number changes completely. It's a moral framework dressed up as arithmetic.
3. "Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity" is the opposite of the global record.
Extreme poverty fell from roughly 38% of humanity in 1990 to under 9% before the pandemic, almost entirely through growth in China, India and East Asia. Not redistribution. Not aid. Growth. The claim is only half-true for median wages in some rich countries, and they quietly universalise it.
4. The headline contradicts the article's own sixth paragraph.
Headline: growth is doomed. Paragraph six: low-income countries still need growth. So growth works precisely where the poor actually live. That's not a doomed strategy, that's the most successful anti-poverty mechanism in history with a footnote.
5. The decoupling double standard.
This school insists GDP can never decouple from emissions (so growth must end), while claiming GDP has fully decoupled from wellbeing (so growth is pointless). Decoupling is impossible in one direction and total in the other, depending on which suits the argument. In reality 30-plus countries have cut emissions, including imported ones, while growing.
6. "Poverty is manufactured" is backwards.
Poverty is the default condition of our species for all of history. Wealth is what had to be manufactured. Inequality is policy-shaped, fine, but treating destitution as something governments created implies it vanishes once they stop, which no historical evidence supports.
7. "Endless expansion on a finite planet" conflates money with stuff.
GDP measures value, not tonnes. A therapy session, a software licence and a barrel of oil all count. Physical limits constrain material throughput, not value-added, and the two have been diverging for decades.
The two claims that hold up: the top 10% producing nearly half of emissions (solid Chancel/Piketty data) and the debt-servicing figure. Everything structural around them is rhetoric wearing a lab coat.
https://t.co/zEBANzOAlM

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

Want boeren en tuinders toestaan om dierlijke mest te gebruiken kost minder andermans geld. Logisch.

[Centenboer ⛵ @vdf79]

'EU wil landbouw met €540 mln compenseren voor gestegen kunstmestprijzen' https://t.co/ny6bvfoaiY