The problem with this thesis is that too much growth happens in Asia. America cannot have dollar hegemony without massive influence in Asia. We can leave Europe at any time, but we cannot ever leave Asia anytime this century.

Hello friends, I am from Belgium. I am visiting America for the first time to see the World Cup. I love your country. I am in Times Square after the basketball game and I see men of all races starting fires and destroying cars. This is amazing. In Europe, only Muslims do this

Knicks MVP Jalen Brunson: “I love Texas. I miss the Texas taxes.” All of a sudden I have hope for his generation.

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time. The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules. So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

FIFA highlighting 2 lesbians during Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

People asking me how I feel ab @katyperry performing at the @FIFAWorldCup. TBH, perfectly appropriate. Given her actions towards my disabled veteran father & her dating the tyrant communist @JustinTrudeau; it is clear she isn’t an American anymore. Soccer isn’t an American sport. It all makes sense!

I will never forgive the culture of the left for killing this man.

SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)

On the occasion of the historic SpaceX IPO and so near to America 250, I want to say something. There is a lot of doomerism and bearishness on America online. It is worth noting, no other country in the world has the liquidity or infrastructure to pull off this IPO. Not even close. That has been the case with major IPOs for more than most (all?) of us have been alive. We remain the exceptional nation to which there is no alternative except the decline of the nation state itself. In the mean time, this is gonna be another American Century and @elonmusk deserves at least partial credit for making it such. I am inspired by the IPO and what it means for humanity. To the stars and beyond.

When you see boomer stock market accounts posting a “this is how it’s going to go” forecast for SpaceX IPO, you know it isn’t going to go that way.

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The message of a protest is "we don't like this". The message of a riot is "we don't like this, and we're able to do something about it". People who unconditionally call for peace and calm, regardless of the provocation, don't fundamentally understand how politics works in the real world. They do understand that the purpose of politics is to provide an alternative to violence, but that's as far as their understanding goes. They don't think through the implications, usually because they are quite comfortable with things as they are. If politics is an alternative to violence, then politics is a proxy for violence. And that means you have to dole out power in proportion to capacity for violence. Or someone's going to figure out they can do better by flipping the table. Monarchy wasn't replaced by democracy because of fine-sounding philosophical ideals and eloquent documents declaring this or that. Democracy happened because if you added rifling to the flintlock firearm, suddenly a individual farmer with a tube was the pinnacle of military technology, and now you had to keep all the farmers with tubes happy by giving them political power. (Ancient Greek democracy had a similar relationship with the hoplite warrior.) When political systems work well, for a while, the violence they represent becomes further and further from people's minds, and those who can't effectively commit or direct violence worm their way into power, and begin to take it away from those who can. And they'll defend their position by saying that violence is unthinkable, barbaric, always bad, must be disavowed at all costs, etc. This isn't some sort of high-minded principle on their part. It simply means one of two things. Either "the status quo works for me, so I don't want you to upset it", or "I suck at violence, and I don't want to have to fight". They want young men demoralized, so that their artificial meritocracy of spreadsheets, or their non-meritocracy of patronage networks, can be protected from the natural meritocracy of conflict. This means that riots aren't actually for achieving any specific material aim. They are for reminding the comfortable that judges and bureaucrats and policemen have home addresses and families. And that violence is always on the table. A protest would only send the message that the Irish don't want to be ethnically cleansed. But the bureaucrats and judges and lawyers already know that. They just don't care. A riot reminds them that they have to care, because the Irish have a long tradition of doing something about it.

“If you are going to use military force, then you should use overwhelming military force. You should use too much and deliberately so; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.” - General Curtis LeMay U.S. Air Force.

I'm watching Knicks game-I'd bet all of those guys with the terrible tattoos wish they never got them-too bad, too late!

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist. The west is like the shire. We must save the shire.

Who believes this shit? I hate propaganda no matter the source.

“It is funny when Europeans say, ‘We can spot Americans from a mile away’. Yeah no shit dude, we can do the same with you. You’re wearing umbros and a gucci shirt that’s like a size small… and you have a purse” -Big Cat

If we want to win the war in Iran, this is the way. I’m tired of America not fighting to win. Winning means killing. If we didn’t want to win (kill), we shouldn’t have started the war.

What if we stopped treating mental health with checklists and started treating it with data? Paradromics CEO and Founder @Matt_R_Angle shares his take on the futuristic yet tangible applications brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) could achieve within the next decade.

Murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their home town is what’s making people angry, not “social media”!