Robert P. Murphy
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Christian, economist, & theorist of nonviolent mechanisms. Chief Economist @infineogroup , S Fellow Mises Institute. Author of *Choice*.
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God loves you more than you can possibly imagine.
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forget the content of his message
this guy is the coolest president ever because he looks like he just defied a direct order from starfleet and stole the enterprise to go rescue his best friend
To me, this is
@JMilei
's best speech so far, every sentence is a memorable quote!
I cut and translated it so the international audience can enjoy our Philosopher-President too 🇦🇷
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just dropped $3,000 on video games but i told my wife i sold her fancy china collection to pay for it so it cost $0
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If a vaccine were 100% safe and 100% effective, then somebody's decision to *not* take it would have no effect whatsoever on anybody else.
So if people refusing a vaccine bother you, it's only because you admit it's not completely safe and/or effective.
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Remember, if you see a mob picking on a boy, Gillette wants you to intervene.
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Conservatives love the troops and police but hate the government, while progressives hate the troops and police but love the government.
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i hope the person who writes biden's tweets appreciates me
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what's amazing is that this guy goes into the wilderness and with his bare hands makes 3,000 of these per hour
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Be sure to actually read this exchange between Amazon and Elizabeth Warren. The good senator admits (a) lobbyists write the tax laws that she and her colleagues collectively pass and (b) she wants to break up a company so it can't insult her. And she thinks she's crushing.
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why would i be afraid of a vaccine with a 99.8% survival rate
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The reasons yesterday's events were tragic is that one person was shot, and it will be used as an excuse to further erode people's rights. Not because the headquarters of professional liars and war criminals was desecrated.
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I'm being serious: From now on, whenever I see someone on Twitter matter-of-factly asserting that states breaking up will lead to civil war, I am going to ask the person directly: "Do YOU support bombing Americans if they vote to leave the Union?"
Force them to take a stand.
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An older man takes half of Britney Spears' money, restricts her freedom of travel, and even regulates what she can put into her own body. All while saying it's "for her own good."
Such paternalism is outrageous when it's her father, but blessed democracy when Uncle Sam.
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no, higher teenage unemployment
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This is not complicated. If you need the government to force your employer to pay you more, you do not have a viable career model.
This is not complicated. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, you do not have a viable business model.
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If you think a pre-teen actress can consent to twerk on camera in a mass-marketed movie, but a 30-year-old single mother can't meaningfully consent to work for less than $15/hour, your views are labeled "progressive" in our culture.
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A lot of people are saying that the ruling class views hates you, wants you dead, etc. I don't subscribe to that at all, I'm much more optimistic.
I think the ruling class views you as cattle.
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Recently recorded a very productive conversation with
@jordanbpeterson
on Austrian School. Should come out later this summer, keep your eyes peeled.
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OK how about this compromise: People who want to, are allowed to go back to work, but in exchange they will send 30% of their income to the government to help pay for social programs.
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In other bad news, we've officially missed the deadline to save Earth.
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And the landless could trade their labor for some of the food. And because we need things besides food, we could work the producers of other goods and services into the mix. But at this point it might be difficult to keep track of it all. We'd need some type of recordkeeping...
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PSA:
1) God exists.
2) He is infinitely powerful.
3) He is infinitely good.
I feel that these facts should be included in our conversations more.
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itshappening.gif
WATCH: Ted Cruz Seriously Entertains the Prospect of Texas Seceding From the Union, Floats Joe Rogan as President
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3 years into the Yang Administration, on the eve of a debt crisis, one intrepid advisor looks carefully at the wording of this promise and proposes a chilling solution...
I want to give every American adult $1,000 a month until the day you die.
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The year is 2021. The Left has acquired the ability to meme.
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we don't lock people up for their beliefs in america because we're not fascists
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having a PhD in economics, i know without even reading the article
Why Spotify picked Joe Rogan over Neil Young in its misinformation fight
📸:Michael S. Schwartz / Getty Images
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My diet is vegan with a mix of steaks
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whoa this guy's not screwing around
BREAKING:
Sworn in as President of Argentina, Milei signs his first executive order, reducing the Argentine government from 21 ministries to 9
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I'm not a lawyer, but if you're going to deny that Rand Paul was "attacked" because it was just a mob of people screaming at him, then I don't think you can claim that using someone's non-preferred pronoun is violence.
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This guy is a national treasure. He wanted to make a point about inflation so he charted the Consumer Price Index if you take out food, energy, shelter, and used cars.
Getting hard to deny significant disinflation happening, despite unemployment close to historic low
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@jordanbpeterson
Hi Dr. Peterson, many here have suggested I would be a good fit. If it helps, this is a talk I gave on the differences between the Austrian approach and the current orthodoxy:
Please contact me at rpm
@ConsultingByRPM
.com if you want to discuss further.
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without government who would keep stocks from rising too much
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alternate headline:
"Amazon voluntarily pays double the minimum wage, matching a popular wage target championed by progressives"
Jeff Bezos's net worth has reached over $200 billion.
Amazon itself is valued at $1 trillion.
The minimum hourly wage for Amazon warehouse workers is $15.
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Tomorrow (Monday) night, I'll be on Tim Pool's
@timcast
livestream starting at 8pm Eastern.
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Sometimes I almost get the sense that progressives don't even bother trying to understand the other side's actual position.
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@guelphgirlchris
@benshapiro
so did you make this fake tweet, or did you get it from someone else
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Besides Tucker Carlson, do any other famous fascists routinely whip up their followers to keep their country out of war?
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I don't know how much cheating there may have been, but this notion that it is absurd for Republicans to worry about it is rich. We know for a fact that the Democratic Party were willing to cheat to screw Bernie supporters. You don't think they would screw Trump supporters?
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okay the lizard people have a sense of humor i'll give them that
(wait for it)
Want to understand more about inflation? These 5 books are a great place to start.
Learn more about rising inflation:
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all these misandrists telling joe rogan what to do with his own body
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@ninaturner
I'm genuinely curious: Do you know what the standard libertarian argument against minimum wage laws is? Hint: It's not "We hate working folks."
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wait this wasn't ai
"If you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school, motherfuckers."
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@RealRossU
I imagine taking responsibility for your role in your experiences is more healthy than wallowing in self-pity, but at the same time, outsiders should remind you that what happened to you is insane. You don't deserve this, buddy.
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I'm not saying this to be a smarta$$, I'm pleading with people to remember their own value system right now in this awful moment.
Many on this site are pro-life, even in cases of rape and incest. "I know a crime has occurred, but I'm sorry you can't take it out on an unborn…
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you know who else was injected with a bioweapon made in a government-funded lab?
wolverine
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Of course the system is rigged. However, for all of the people flipping out about billionaires not paying income tax on unrealized stock gains: Do you want to owe the IRS if your house goes up in market value?
In 2007, when Amazon's stock value more than doubled, Jeff Bezos didn't pay a cent in federal income taxes.
The system is rigged, friends.
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In Cavill's defense, how could he possibly have known that his then-girlfriend would, years later, warn people to not let the Holocaust happen again?
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the same people who say all cops are bastards also downplay the importance of a 2-parent household
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I mean, we *did* ask for privately owned tanks like 2 weeks ago, and you guys said no
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1/n Re: the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, let me give a really basic thread on what happens when a bank mismatches the maturities on its assets and liabilities.
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holy crap why didn't he say this during the campaign i totally would've voted for him
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The Kremlin's secret plan to bring down America... invest in US stocks!
I AM LOSING MY MIND WE ARE WATCHING MANUFACTURED CONSENT PLAY OUT IN REAL TIME
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Under socialism millions died because there was no food for kilometers.
Capitalism will let you starve to death while sitting meters away from food.
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why didn't these skyscrapers just collapse into their own footprint
China demolishing unfinished buildings.. beautiful Keynesianism at work
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If there's one thing George W. Bush won't abide, it's a president inciting Americans to violence on the basis of falsehoods.
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Progressives: We need to put a price on carbon, to incentive businesses to wean themselves from fossil fuels.
Also progressives: Don't listen to the right-wing fearmongers who warn that doubling the minimum wage will reduce employment. Business doesn't work like that.
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I'm not trolling, genuinely asking: If you urge people to register/vote every election, do you think increased turnout would improve quality of elected officials? Like, do you think the people who currently don't bother voting, pick better candidates than the people who DO vote?
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Well, America had a good run. There were 44 presidents who managed to leave office without breaking a law, and then Trump breaks the streak.
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Why do we need passports to tell who's been vaccinated? Couldn't companies just check the person's Twitter account?
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According to white progressives I've heard arguing about politics, apparently black Americans in 2021:
a) Don't have drivers' licenses
b) Don't know how to use the internet.
c) Aren't taxpayers.
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Tonight I was changing my 2-year-old for bed. He didn't want to put on the PJs I'd picked out, so I used a classic parenting move: I held up a 2nd pair of jammies & said, "Which one do you want?" He picked 2nd and let me put them on w/o fussing.
Oh, remember to vote everybody!
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The year is 2027. President Kamala Harris orders the 8 remaining libertarians to be tortured on the rack.
As i'm saying how much this sucks, the libertarian to the right of me says, "lmao you think kamala is the first president to torture people"
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What's the worst part of this tweet?
A) It's false.
B) He capitalized "Science."
The good thing about Science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.
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Imagine this: You get your income-tax free paycheck that was seamlessly deposited into a 100% reserve (and hence run-proof) bank after picking up your kids from a super-awesome private school and then riding in a big truck back home to your ranch in the Republic of Texas.
Imagine this: withdrawing your UBI check that was seamlessly deposited in your public banking account after picking up your kids from awesome public school and then taking green transit back home to your social housing flat
A future we can make happen
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Whether you love AJ or hate his guts, you should realize that this is now another huge stick that will be deployed against podcasters with unpopular views.
Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight Sandy Hook shooting victims.
It's a historic amount for damages in a defamation lawsuit.
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@ewarren
There’s someone who didn’t work construction all their life. Who didn’t carry little kids around as a preschool teacher. Who didn’t help patients in and out of beds as a nurse.
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Walter Williams RIP. Photo from October 2017 when he gave a talk at the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech. I asked him for a photo and he said, "The open bar is closing, let me get a drink first."
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it would be cool if there were a mechanism to let people know when resources became scarcer and so consumers had to economize more
It’s almost 3 p.m. Time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees (or use a fan instead), turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you’re not using.
We need every Californian to help conserve energy. Please do your part.
#FlexAlert
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we're making plans to cross state lines for christmas
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After seeing (some) libertarians pooh-pooh the criticism of Netflix for "Cuties" I may need to stop calling myself libertarian.
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I have to stand back and congratulate the amazing ability of the Left to frame the political debate. It has just about been cemented in Official History that anybody who went to the Trump rally was a violent insurrectionist and white supremacist. These people are pros, bravo.
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@piersmorgan
How would barring anti-vaxxers from society be calling their bluff? If anything they're calling *your* bluff and you're folding: you apparently don't actually believe the vaccine will keep people safe if they encounter an infected stranger.
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if you leave the sound off it looks like they're having a conversation
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It's amazing that it's 2019 and it's still illegal for millionaires to write extra checks to the IRS or charity.
"Tax me!" Let's listen to these Patriotic Millionaires who want their taxes raised, not cut.
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I realize this tweet, according to some, will make me an element of the set of lolbertarians, but for the record: I think it's a mistake to applaud government bans on the rules a business can put in place regarding its clientele. All the warnings of slippery slope apply.
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I'll be honest, the single biggest thing that makes me pause when it comes to Javier Milei is that the DC libertarians adore him.
something doesn't feel right
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stay in your lane, MDs. this is a matter for economists to answer
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147,000 people applaud a senator for threatening private citizen who made fun of him online.
kings didn't threaten jesters, another virtue of monarchy
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I'm not making a joke, I'm genuinely asking: Has any progressive explained why it's not a contradiction to be in favor of (say) vax mandates but also say "My body my choice"? I can think of some arguments, but curious to see a genuine believer's explanation.
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So Gina Carano has said more offensive things than Bill Burr?
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work in the gulag after criticizing the leader
If capitalism wasn’t a thing and you had all your needs met, what would you do with your life?
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This is fake news! I looked it up and it was Pelosi's husband, who bought $1m in call options on Tesla stock.
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i don't mean to alarm anyone but i waded into a discussion involving hundreds of people who supported raising the minimum wage and not one of them even seemed to be aware of the
#1
argument that economists (who oppose it) cite against the policy
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Same story, both headlines are factually correct.
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@ComicDaveSmith
Dave, the fans of the Daily Wire have always stressed that in addition to the facts of a situation, we should also care about the feelings of those involved.
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I saw two libertarians fight on social media. The first quoted an argument from his opponent, but put "muh" in front. 2nd libertarian responded "because reasons!" thereby dealing surprisingly powerful rejoinder. But in finishing flourish, 1st AlTeRnaTED cAPs, winning the fight.
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One almost suspects that wages are determined by something besides regulation.
22 states increased minimum wage on Jan. 1, but in PA it’s still $7.25, despite recent legislative efforts. Many employers in the state actually pay more than that, perhaps to keep up with the norms in PA’s neighbor states Map by
@jduchneskie
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what did you learn
We didn’t flip Georgia Blue for Biden to air strike Syria. We flipped Georgia Blue for our $2,000 Stimulus Checks.
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If only we had some way of testing this theory. It's too bad Ayn Rand was so smoking hot. Guess we'll never know.
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