The "warmth of collectivism" is to freeze while those with heated dachas tell you how noble your sacrifice is.

It's genuinely crazy they don't spend much time on the horrors of communism in schools, the result is palpable in our culture. People think there's a magic utopian system 'greedy capitalists' are holding back, vs the reality that every time it's tried poverty & starvation follow

This apartment is rent stabilized at $985 a month in Flatbush. Because of a 2019 law that Mamdani supports, they can't raise rents after bringing this apartment up to code so they can't afford to/are going bankrupt. This is the consequence of the very policies the Mayor supports

“The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.” — Milton Friedman

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost. The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because

With internet cut in Iran, Starlink is the only way for anti-regime protesters to communicate with the outside world… Elon is the most consequential entrepreneur and innovator in modern history.

Fed "independence" is a myth, a story. It is the moral cover which justifies its grotesque state-sanctioned near-monopoly power over the most important market in the world: money. The Fed is never "independent" of the banking establishment. It is of, by, and for the banks. The

The Northeast is burning oil and coal to keep the lights on during this winter storm. Why? Because they don't have enough natural gas pipeline capacity. And they don't have pipeline capacity because they spent a decade blocking every proposal. Some examples: Constitution

Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh on Bitcoin:

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They’ve accidentally invented borders from first principles

DEI is a cruel and condescending policy. It marks minority achievers with a social suspicion that they aren't achievers at all but mere tokens in a rigged system that puts identity ahead of merit. This blemish, true or not, lasts a lifetime, breeding anger all around.

Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position. Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's

"Sitting on their vast wealth," could also be phrased "investing their vast wealth in productive enterprises instead of throwing money to activist NGOs that are mostly scams."

“I would never make a friend/enemy distinction, that’s something only my enemies do!”

This opinion has not been allowed in official or high-profile circles for 30 years. Even if it were wrong, which it is not, that would be a mistake. The censoring of debate and suppressing of diversity of opinion has ended - in America at least.

First we had one child and I thought I knew what children are like. Our second child was completely different; I’d overgeneralized. There are actually two types of children.

might have been a mistake for silicon valley to roll out their products with the sales pitch "it's over for [your way of making a living/deriving joy and meaning from existence]: say hello to our amazing human obsolescence machine! it only requires all of the water in the world!"

Interesting - a very different spin on things. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/top-10-warre…

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now