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Joined April 2009
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Jun 13
Socialists are trying to sell you their disaster on the left. Elon delivers profits, affordable EVs, Starlink, and a multiplanetary future. No wonder they demonize him.
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The bucket does not need to be fixed. It is designed to constantly need more water. ☭
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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Jun 9
There's literally nothing stopping socialists from creating voluntary socialist communities in a capitalist country. Feed the homeless. Share resources. Run worker-owned businesses. Distribute food regardless of profit. Nobody is stopping them. What they don't like is that the rest of us are free to say "no thanks."
They always draw communism as an empty fridge and capitalism as a full one. They never draw the homeless person outside the capitalist supermarket, the farmer dumping food because selling it isn’t profitable, or the hundreds of millions who go hungry despite a world that produces more than enough food to feed everyone. Under capitalism, the fridge is full if you can pay. Under socialism, the goal is that nobody is denied food because they’re poor.
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Jun 5
If you spent $1 million every single day nonstop… You wouldn’t touch America’s $39.23 TRILLION debt until you’d been blowing cash for 107,000 years. That’s 107 THOUSAND YEARS! 🫠
What an insane statistic. If you spent $1 million per day, every single day since Jesus was born, you would have only spent $740 billion. Less than 2% of our national debt. That’s hard to even comprehend.
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Unlike the alternative, for profit food production produces such an abundance of food that not only is everyone feed, but even the poor are at risk of becoming obese.
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Jun 2
Commies literally can’t tell the diff between buying and stealing. Trump bought a ~10% stake and Intel agreed to the deal. Bernie wants to forcibly confiscate 50% of AI company stock and hand the gov board seats. That’s not investment. That’s theft.
EVERYONE'S CALLING IT COMMUNISM Bernie Sanders just proposed a one-time 50% tax on OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI - paid in stock, not cash - dropping half of each company into a public fund that pays dividends to every American. The catch nobody in the replies noticed: the AI bosses asked for this first. - OpenAI literally proposed "a public wealth fund giving every citizen a stake in AI-driven growth" - Anthropic publicly called for "national sovereign wealth funds with stakes in AI" - Elon Musk said federal checks were "the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI" - Trump's government already took a 10% stake in Intel and a 15% cut of Nvidia's China chip sales - nobody screamed socialism So the plan everyone's calling a commie fever dream was pitched by Altman, Amodei and Musk before Bernie ever said a word.
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May 27
NYC’s rent-stabilized buildings have way more maintenance problems than unregulated ones. 2017 HVS: 64% of rent-controlled units had deficiencies vs 47% market-rate. Rent caps taxes regs starve buildings of cash for repairs. Then the gov seizes them as “neglected.” Classic.
NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
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May 27
That’s why the city already has the Third Party Transfer program: foreclose for unpaid taxes/fines chronic violations, then hand buildings to nonprofits or tenants. It was paused after hurting small owners too hard. Mamdani revives it for “responsible stewards.” Same playbook.
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May 27
Landlords aren’t all saints, but when the law guarantees you lose money on repairs, most buildings eventually fail. The government sets the rules that guarantee neglect… then swoops in as savior to confiscate. This isn’t fixing housing. It’s a property transfer by design.
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Mamdani is lying to you. He didn't turn a $12B budget deficit to $0. Spark notes: He inflated the deficit by $8B compared to Adams, brought it back down, then closed the rest with one-off bailout funds from Kathy Hochul who's desperate for a win. Funny thing is most of you morons believe it. The entire Democratic party is cheering a lie while "cooking" the books. New York City has been LEGALLY REQUIRED to balance its budget every single year since 1975. State law. The Financial Emergency Act. Passed after the city almost went bankrupt and Gerald Ford told them to drop dead. Mamdani's own budget message brags this is the 47th consecutive balanced budget. Bloomberg balanced. de Blasio balanced. Adams balanced. Giuliani balanced. Crediting Mamdani for balancing the budget is like crediting a taxi driver for stopping at a red light. Now the $12 billion. Adams left office with a projected FY27 gap of $4.69 billion. So where did the extra eight billion come from? Mamdani's own team. They walked in and moved hidden spending back onto the books: rental assistance, shelter ops, special ed reimbursements, NYPD overtime. Legit cleanup work. Then they ran to a podium and called it a deficit they inherited. They printed the number. Then they took credit for printing the number. How did they "close" it? Half came from Albany. Hochul wrote a check: $8 billion in state aid over two years. THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. HE DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING. Mamdani's signature millionaire's tax? KILLED by Hochul. Corporate rate hike? KILLED. Free buses he ran on? KILLED. CityFHEPS expansion he campaigned on? He's in court right now fighting it. Then there's the pension trick. $1.64 billion of the "savings" comes from extending pension amortization from 2032 to 2037. The Citizens Budget Commission called it "a pension gimmick" that "balances this budget on the backs of future New Yorkers." William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance, said it "creates a debt that's more expensive than muni bonds." And the kicker. The budget IS NOT ADOPTED. Council votes June 30. The state budget the whole thing depends on was still not enacted as of last week. Out-year gaps under Mamdani's own numbers: FY2028: $7.1 billion FY2029: $8.5 billion FY2030: $9.8 billion The hole grew $5.4 billion in three months. So the real headline. Hochul cut a check. Future workers eat the pension bill. The structural deficit is BIGGER than the day he walked in. They didn't fix anything. They moved it. The math: $4.69B real gap. $8B from Hochul. $1.64B pension can-kick. $25.9B in future gaps. He didn't balance the books. But he's gambling your future and kicking the can down the road. So maybe stop celebrating. But what do I know. Good luck.
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May 12
April inflation released today: 3.8% YoY. Outside the post-COVID surge, that’s the highest in 10 years.
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Everyone has to press a🟥 or 🟦 button. If more than 50% press the 🟦 button, everyone survives. If fewer than 50% press the 🟦 button, only those who pressed the 🟥 survive. You're completely color blind. Which button would you press?
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Apr 28
My formula for Newcomb’s Paradox: Take both if that smaller amount ($1K) makes a difference in your life. If it wouldn’t, take just the one box. In other words, if we kept scaling the amounts way up, I’d expect more and more people to flip to two-boxing as the “small” reward starts having a larger impact.
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The graph on the left recently circulated social media, it is pure fiction.
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Apr 24
I hate gerrymandering and agree with Republicans who oppose the aggressive redistricting in Virginia. But if they really opposed gerrymandering, they’d work with Democrats to ban it nationwide. Instead, they blocked those bills every time. Selective outrage?
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Apr 16
Removing the Electoral College changes 2 things: Campaigns change. Right now, politicians need broad coalitions. Remove the Electoral College, and politicians stop coalition-building and start chasing 51%. Minority groups stop being courted and start being outvoted. Turnout changes. Right now, a Republican in Los Angeles or a Democrat in rural Texas has almost no reason to show up. Their vote doesn't move anything. Popular vote changes that overnight. There are millions of them sitting on the sidelines right now. Don't model the results using previous turnout and campaign strategies.
There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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