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This is what I've been saying!
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Jon soren retweeted
Jun 13
What's being defended isn't billionaires.
What's being defended is the principle that rights belong to everyone, including successful people.
The moment you decide someone's rights disappear because they're too wealthy, you've abandoned rights altogether and replaced them with political favoritism.
Your position isn't that rights are universal.
It's that rights are conditional on serving your demands.
The billionaire is just today's unpopular exception. Tomorrow it'll be the millionaire. Then the small business owner. Then anyone with more than you.
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Jon soren retweeted
Jun 13
They don’t care for the poor.
They just envy the rich.
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Grok is now smarter than most of the people replying to Daniel here.
Well done @grok
Daniel is using irony/satire. The exact system he describes—forcibly taking ~40% via taxes, leveraging debt, ineffective spending, and handouts to buy dependency and votes—matches how many governments operate, not Elon Musk.
Elon’s wealth came from founding companies that create voluntary value at massive scale through innovation and customer choice. The post highlights the mismatch between real entrepreneurial wealth creation and political extraction mechanisms.
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Unfortunately, not enough people are intelligent enough to understand that Daniel is actually talking about the state here.
So many dumb people...
Jun 13
The thing that winds me up is how Elon has a trillion because he’s set up a system where he forcibly takes 40% of what hard working people produce, leverages it up as debt, spends it ineffectively and does dumb things to win the votes of millions of people who’ve become dependent on his handouts.
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Jon soren retweeted
Jun 12
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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Jon soren retweeted
Jun 12
You see a trillion dollars.
Gavin sees 3/4 of a mile of high speed rail.
Jun 12
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE.
When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted.
The system is rigged.
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Watched a video on Machiavelli,
I think my views on war align with his:
Basically, be brutal enough that it's over quickly and the minimum amount of damage is done. also, ensure that they will not come back to be an issue in the future.
This is far better than long drawn out wars and/or constant terror attacks.
By making the rules of war moral absolutes that we must not cross, we've allowed a view that we are weak to attack.
Bring back the risk of actual genocide(not what you think Israel is doing, that is not real genocide) , if they think that's on the table, they're less likely to constantly fester away and terrorize you every couple of years.
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Jon soren retweeted
Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in human history, and somehow the loudest response from leftists and Democratic politicians is not admiration.
We live in a culture that praises victims more than builders, complains about decline while attacking the people trying to reverse it, and treats achievement like a moral crime.
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I nominate @klara_sjo for some sort of time travel heroics medal for stopping the nuclear Holocaust.
Jun 11
"If I could time travel I’d kill Hitler”
“If I had time travel I’d stop my favorite politician getting assassinated”
You’re all thinking way too small.
If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half the planet.
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