New life. A wild horse foal in the Cariboo

The funny part is that solving world hunger would require a powerful intervening state to go to these countries, build infrastructure, firmly protect private property rights, and both grow and import a middle class with an interest and ability to sustain neutral and non-extractive institutions, and do so against the will of the existing elites. Now where have we seen this before…

Elon becoming a trillionaire is horrible. What are we supposed to teach our kids? That if you create self driving cars, colonize space, provide Internet access to everyone on earth and fix debilitating diseases that you can become a TRILLIONAIRE?? Disgusting.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤—𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥—𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?⁣ ⁣ As one of the few senior officers still active on X, I’ve been attacked, downgraded, and hit with whisper campaigns meant to soften what I’ve seen and said from the front seat of command.⁣ ⁣ I do it because I care. Deeply. Because I’m committed to authenticity and relentless about truth. Not for clicks or applause, but for one purpose: to build the lethality and warfighting edge our Army will need if the balloon goes up. And more importantly, to strengthen deterrence—so we never have to fight. ⁣ ⁣ Peace comes through real, credible strength. Not dog-and-pony shows.⁣ ⁣ I’ve been “informed” my authenticity upsets people. Damn right it does. That’s the job. Our profession demands abrasiveness when softness gets Soldiers killed.⁣ I’ve written the professional articles, recorded the podcasts, spoken at the symposiums. Observations from 55 NTC rotations, Blackhorse command, and hard lessons from the modern battlefield. They get filed away like every other rotational AAR—only for us to repeat the same mistakes and ignore the same gaps.⁣ ⁣ 𝐗 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐈𝐭 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐞. ⁣ ⁣ That’s why I stay in the fight here.⁣ Our Army deserves leaders who prioritize winning over comfort. I’m all in on that mission.⁣ #Blackhorse #Lethality #MissionCommand

Exactly

They are racist slurs.

Can progressives please study some basic economics before fantasizing about Elon’s mythical pile of cash and how they would redistribute it?

I’ll take the trillionaire creating thousands of millionaires over the millionaires creating trillions in debt.

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.

Sigh. No one is hoarding money. The trillion dollars is in his corporate holdings. Are you suggesting that we should break up Space X, Starlink, Tesla etc

Pourquoi les gauchistes sont les plus gros attardés du game? Décorticage, point par point. Premièrement, ils ne comprennent rien à l'économie. Strictement rien. Dans leur tête, la richesse est un gâteau de taille fixe. Si quelqu'un a une grosse part, c'est forcément qu'il te l'a volée. L'idée qu'on puisse fabriquer un nouveau gâteau, plus gros, à partir de rien, leur est physiquement inaccessible. Le jeu à somme positive, la création de valeur, ça dépasse leur firmware. Pour eux tout est à somme nulle: ta réussite est mathématiquement ma défaite. Deuxièmement, et c'est logique vu le point un, ils détestent exactement les gens qui créent cette valeur. L'entrepreneur qui emploie cinquante personnes? Un exploiteur. Le mec qui n'a jamais créé un seul emploi de sa vie? Un grand penseur du travail. Ils crachent sur les contributeurs nets et vénèrent ceux qui ne produisent rien. Cohérent dans l'absurde. Troisièmement, et c'est le vrai moteur: la jalousie. Tout l'édifice tient avec ça. Ce n'est pas qu'ils veulent que tout le monde monte. C'est qu'ils ne supportent pas que quelqu'un monte plus haut qu'eux. Girard avait tout expliqué: le désir mimétique, l'envie déguisée en morale. Ils ne veulent pas la justice, ils veulent ta part. Quatrièmement, et là je laisse la science trancher: corrélation troublante avec le fait d'être profondément aigri, et, disons-le, rarement épanoui. On va pas se mentir. Le bonheur, ça se voit sur un visage. L'amertume aussi. Bref. Une idéologie qui ne comprend pas la richesse, déteste ceux qui la créent, carbure à l'envie, et confond redistribution et vengeance. Le plus drôle? Ils sont persuadés d'être les gentils.

A curious definition of evil has emerged. A man who creates companies, products, and wealth is evil because somewhere a child is hungry. The politicians who spent trillions, the dictators who stole billions, the warlords, the corrupt officials, and the failed institutions are granted a curious exemption. The hungry child is real enough. The logic connecting him to a stranger's net worth is somewhat less substantial.

Guy, Where to start? First, you recognize that we don't have a single world government but, rather, over 200 sovereign states each of which has some or more responsibility in regards to clean water, food, housing and healthcare for their citizens? You understand that these over 200 sovereign states generally don't all agree on anything? Second, do you understand that economic surpluses are what permit governments and/or societies to provide clean water, food, housing and healthcare for 'everyone'? Do you understand that successful businesses and entrepreneurs are what provide the economic surpluses? Third, do you realize what the trillion dollars is? It's not a stash of money ready for you to redistribute but rather a valuation of a set of businesses.

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We can now understand why progressives simply have no clue as to how economics works. Well said Matt.

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

From the man and party that brought us DRIPA. Ironic, don’t you think? Let’s see, what personal rights and freedoms has this NDP placed in jeopardy in B.C? Play along with me. I’ll start. Private property rights

Is this parody?

You don't care about Canada. You literally think Canada is a “colonial mistake.” You forced DRIPA onto British Columbians and threatened the security of private property. You have Land Back ministers eager to tear apart British Columbia. You are the extreme activists

Rachel turned off her comments but she appears to be advocating an ideological and incorrect Marxist view that wealth can not be created but only taken from the labours of others. This is an unfortunately widespread belief that is wrong. Wealth can be created by the creation of new technologies and social systems. As well, group activity necessitates leadership which is value not exploitation.

With all due respect… To influenced and media pundits who pick a team, and a political side, and comment on issues in this style - it just reads to me as a bit lazy. Ad hominem attacks, insults, and judgements with no arguments attached seem like you’re just pandering to your side. This post doesn’t tell me a thing about what Rachel thinks about monetary policy, fiscal policy, the role of capitalism and markets. You can call @tobi a loser all you like, but factually he’s a very successful entrepreneur, and did not lose on that venture. I understand his people can say whatever they like, but I would value a substantive discussion on very wealthy individuals, and how we treat this minority of elites without devolving into insults. The left isn’t wrong that they command a lot of power and influence. The right isn’t wrong to say they worked hard, and sacrificed a lot to get their wealth. I would just love to see a bit more substance than what I see here.