GSB 🎓 Old Etonian - decompressing by responding to minimum-wage opinions. Polo / Soccer / Tennis

Joined December 2023
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Yeah hooray for basketball. My job is not to cheer for sports, that’s not what I ran or what I was elected for (three times). My job is to represent my constituents and hold this city accountable for its failures, and there have been MANY dramatic, systemic failures this week enabled by our supposed leaders. It’s inexcusable. Ignoring rampant violence and lawlessness (not ‘isolated incidents’) because it might sully Zohran’s synthetic ‘joy’ and the DSA spin machine is peak idiocy. I’m not going to play that game. This week has been a disaster. Full stop. I’ll celebrate when we can have civilized public gatherings without worrying about animals who belong in prison forever torching a school bus or shooting into a crowd or lynching a guy for wearing the wrong jersey. That will be something to celebrate. Until then, I really don’t care.
Vickie Paladino didn't even make a post celebrating the Knicks' win last night. She cannot acknowledge the city being united in collective joy because her entire worldview requires this to not be possible.
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Replying to @EmmanuelMacron
🔹They are not even bothering to hide that this is an Orwellian shakedown. Children are the pretext and age verification is the perfumed term for fingerprinting every adult on the continent and feeding them into the Big Brother Machine. 🔹Then study the rigged guest list, because only the “inconvenient” platforms make it onto the ban. The regime approved ones like Bluesky keep their run of the house, child abuse uploads and all, while X goes straight on the block. 🔹They have lifted a page out of Hamas’s playbook, using children as human shields to trick the dumbest amongst us.
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Lotta talk about budget fixes rn, but IMO not enough about my favorite (very wonky) one: "Basing benefit increases on the chained CPI would reduce Social Security’s long-term shortfall by roughly one-fifth, without raising taxes or cutting benefits." cato.org/commentary/social-s…
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Jun 15
Percentage of "extreme liberals" under 30 years of age who have been diagnosed with a mental health problem: 56% Percentage of "extreme conservatives": 10%
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Replying to @Keir_Starmer
🔸 This is rich, coming from a self serving piece of garbage who has stood idle through every other safety crisis in Britain. 🔸 The state that could not convict the men who raped British girls has discovered it can govern the browsing of forty million adults who never harmed anyone. He is constructing the architecture to follow the population and expand the state into every corner of private life. 🔸They never seem interested in controlling the people committing the crimes. They are obsessed with controlling the people obeying the law.
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Or, Americans today are loathe to admit to themselves they are the most heavily propagandized and manipulated people on the planet.
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Europe once built cathedrals, empires, and industries. Now it builds visitor centers for tourists taking selfies in front of what their ancestors created, while the rest of the world builds AI labs, rockets and megafactories. An open-air museum with excellent wine and cheese.
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Jun 14
Nathan mixes up what a price *is* with what happens if you force-sell everything at once. Market cap isn’t a pile of cash or a government stamp. It’s the total price millions of strangers are currently willing to pay for Tesla shares because they expect the company to keep making cars, batteries, robots, and profits. That price updates every second from real trades. If Musk sold his entire stake tomorrow, the price would fall—exactly like selling a house, a painting, or Berkshire stock in one go. That doesn’t mean yesterday’s price was fake; it means supply and demand work. The “pyramid” claim collapses the same way. A pyramid scheme needs new suckers’ money to pay earlier ones and has no product. Tesla sells cars people drive away in. Customers get utility whether the next share trades or not. Investors get returns from actual operations scaling. No recruitment of marks required. Unrealized wealth is just the market’s running guess at future value created. It isn’t a vault of seized cash waiting to be redistributed. A wealth tax would take a slice of that guess by force. Market prices come from consent. Taxes don’t.
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Replying to @bourscheid
Brilliant plan, you absolute moron. Liquidate Musk’s entire net worth, hand it out, and every human on Earth gets about $125. Everyone is richer on paper while the quantity of food, housing, medicine, and energy in the world sits exactly where it was. You redistributed a number, cretin. Now run it the other way. Delete Amazon’s logistics, Google’s search, Apple’s phone, Nvidia’s chips, SpaceX’s launch costs, Tesla’s batteries, every AI tool being built today. That world is poorer, slower, dumber, and less productive across the board. Take the fortunes and almost nothing moves. Take the companies and modern life collapses a tier. The wealth is the symptom of humanity improving. Only an imbecile this proud of his ignorance.
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All left populists upset about Elon becoming the first trillionaire never mention that one becomes wealthy by inventing products and services that benefit others and drive progress and innovation Start your own business, or get a real job instead of stealing other people’s money
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This guy is such a snake.
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?
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5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only. That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i… bestcolleges.com/research/colle…
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So if Musk is “hoarding” money, what would it mean if/when the stock price goes down? The selling window doesn’t start to open until August. So if by then the price drops 25% did he give back that money to everyone else? If he hoarded it, that must mean when he loses it, it goes somewhere. Or maybe they think he’s hoarding naturally occurring electric cars and rockets? Or maybe none of these people understand how wealth creation works.
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Replying to @SenWarren
🔸Wrong as always, you fossilized leech. We don’t need a wealth tax. We need more men who produce what Musk has produced for humanity. 🔸Every dollar of that trillion is something someone chose to buy. Musk built industries that didn’t exist while you created a person they didn’t exist. We already have one professional impostor too many. Lecture him when you’ve built one true thing, you shameless, hollow, laminated fraud.
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There’s only one thing that can make this day better 🇺🇸 🚀
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I believe that @SpaceX is the most important company ever It transcends the scope of a traditional company It will open up the Stars Elon had the vision And then the team pushed through limitless pain to get where they are Which is just the beginning

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Imbécil, subnormal, zurdo de mierda. Estás confundiendo dos conceptos que no tienen absolutamente nada que ver. Deber fiduciario y jurisdicción de la SEC. Aunque mañana apareciera una prueba irrefutable de que Real Madrid ofreció €150 millones y FC Barcelona sólo €120 millones, la SEC no entra por la puerta como si fuera el VAR de Wall Street. Eso es un asunto de gobierno corporativo y derecho societario, no de regulación bursátil estadounidense. Eres pobre porque eres un reverendo gilipollas!
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The median annual income for electricians is $62,350, or around $31 per hour bls.gov/ooh/construction-and…
If my electrician charges $175 per hour, somebody is going to have to explain to me why you would spend four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to college.
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Replying to @NYCMayor
🔹 This imbecile is cheering for a monument to merit while campaigning for an ideology of grievance. The Knicks runs on the single principle your entire ideology exists to abolish, you smirking mediocrity. 🔹 Merit built the only things this city is proud of, meanwhile your whole program is a jihad against merit handed to you by a coalition of resentful losers. Enjoy the parade, you fraud.
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NYC wins twice tonight.
🚨 JUST IN: Columbia University anti-Israel and pro-Hamas activist Mohsen Mahdawi has been ordered to be deported to Jordan.
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Remember, Zohran fully approves of this behavior.
BREAKING: Knicks Fans climb and smash Yellow cab on 7th Avenue in NYC after Knicks win Game 4 of the NBA Finals Video by @yyeeaahhhboiii2 | Licensing desk@freedomnews.tv
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