Midwestern Businessman, #Capitalist, Investor, former policy staffer, former Township Trustee. Sometimes I have good ideas that make money.

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12 Dec 2022
"Never have I been more impressed with the advice I once received: 'You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.'" - Milton Friedman This is why it's important to get out of your echo chamber.
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There are people out here that will tell you with a straight face they believe this. As a student of history, I can in fact name a myriad of places off the top of my head far more authoritarian than the US.
Replying to @realNickWake
No one has been more authoritarian than the USA, except for Nazi Germany, & now ZISRAEL, whose authoritarianism we support!
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Pretty sure that's unconstitutional...and a bad idea...and would result in economic collapse
Stop advocating for a wealth tax and start advocating for the forced seizure of all businesses. Make them democratic and owned by the community.
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Most of the rhetoric around Elon right now has its genesis in envy
Progressives: Remember that Elon’s wealth belongs to him Yes, he has a lot of money That doesn’t make it yours—or the government’s
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"I'm gonna make up a Marx quote to make him sound more relevant to today's world" -This guy, probably
Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind. "One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing." Amazing powers of prediction.
Community note
The quoted statement is not from Karl Marx. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx marxists.org/archive/marx/w…
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I have a fan
When you die no one we'll miss you. You're Just another capitalist apolgist with no soul.
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A cyberpunk hellscape?
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This is what society would look like if we abandoned Capitalism and adopted Communism.
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"The obvious is always least understood." -Klemens von Metternich #dailyquote
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“I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.” - Catherine II "The Great" #dailyquote This is solid advice, not just from a political standpoint but also in business and in life.
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Winning for winnings sake is going to produce some pretty scary results.
It's not just the evidence of assault. It's not just the Nazi tattoo It's not just lying about the Nazi tattoo It's not just the Kik account It's not just the adulterous sexting It's not just the deranged posting It's all of it (and the more that may emerge). This is the guy you want to burn your moral credibility for to beat ... Susan Collins?
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Happy Founders' Day to all my brothers in @AlphaChiRho, past and present! Be Men!
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Ready for the @econclubgr dinner this evening! Looking forward to a great discussion from two former Presidents.
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Please tell me folks aren't this economically illiterate
"in communism, you don't own your house!" Guys, that's capitalism, what do you think mortgages are?
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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson #MondayMotivation
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Got verified... because why not
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#NuclearPower is the only way you're going to get to an electric, green economy. The anti-nuclear crowd needs to drop their ossified opinions, accept 40 years of technological development that occurred post-Chernobyl, and throw in some support. Or they can say they like coal...
Maybe they lied about their intentions with “net-zero”
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Who exactly is the endorsement meant to appeal to? Like really?
Angelenos need leaders willing to stand up and speak out. Jane has never been afraid to do either
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Today we remember the last day of Constantinople and the end of the Roman Empire.
On May 28, 1453 the Ottomans were resting for a final assault, “there was an ominous silence.” I wonder what went through the mind of Constantine XI Palaiologos as he processed the fact that “the only hope left,” a “promised fleet from Venice,” wasn’t coming. Allegedly “Constantine broke down and wept” but also looked to God and the Theotokos for divine aid! “The hope was dashed when a Venetian ship that had slipped out (ran through the Ottoman blockade) to reconnoitre came back to report that no fleet was to be seen.” To be honest, you must give credit to these scouts. They easily could have decided not to go back to Constantinople once they realized no fleet was coming, but they did their duty. “The whole of Christendom, it seems, had deserted him in his fight against the enemies of the Cross. He committed himself and his city to the mercy of Christ, His Mother, and the first Christian Emperor, the holy Constantine the Great.” Naturally “the news that they would fight alone must have unnerved some of his Italian allies. Violence broke out among the Genoese and Venetian defenders.” Constantine, as shocked and full of sorrow as he when he heard the news, steeled his nerve and intervened “to remind them that they had a more important conflict on their hands.” Constantine likely felt fear, resentment, and anger at the events around him. He was paying the debt of his Palaiologan ancestors whom had overseen the decline of the Roman state - but he did what he could. “Constantine commanded that the most venerable icon of the Mother of God, protectress of the city, should be brought out and carried in procession around the streets.” In the final days and hours both Orthodox and Catholics “forgot their differences as they joined together in hymns and prayers.” Constantine went to the Hagia Sophia to “pray and ask forgiveness and remission of his sins from every bishop present before receiving communion at the altar. The priest who gave the sacrament could not have known that he was administering the last rites” to the last ever Roman Emperor. Nor that it was the last time an Emperor would step in the Great Church. Constantine then “went back to his palace at Blachernai to ask for forgiveness from his household and bid them farewell before riding into the night to make a final inspection of his soldiers at the wall.” And soon after on May 29 the final battle for the City occurred, and then the life of the Emperor and the Empire was all over. Source - The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans by Donald M. Nicol
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This would be considered an illegal taking, and the courts would easily quash this. Especially if rent control and other government policies are part of the reason why the buildings are economically difficult to maintain.
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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Karl Marx is one of the most LIED about thinkers to ever live. NOBODY has ever debunked his theories.
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I had a professor that used to write "Life's not fair" on the board. As I've gotten older, I've realized that he was trying to force us to create substantive arguments as opposed to some nebulous "fairness" question.
Replying to @mapletone
So the minority gets to decide. How is that fair?!?
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