@antixnz @hoggbylgja @SonofManwithus When you accept that this world is real and final - that existence here is not a waiting room for eternity - you grasp that your life is not a trial run. It is the performance. There are no second chances, no cosmic do-overs, no redemption in another realm. This is it. And that

Bernie thinks this is "fair" because he starts from the premise that your wealth belongs to the collective and you are permitted to keep what it decides you don't need. "You'd still have $2.5 billion" is not an argument for fairness. It is a looter calculating how much he can

Laissez-faire capitalism and a constitutionally limited government that protects individual rights. But that requires a critical mass of people who understand that rights derive from man's nature as a rational being. That you have the right to your own life, which means the

This perfectly captures the parasite's delusion: that wealth is static loot to be seized and redistributed. Here's what actually happens when you "repossess all their stuff": The producers will rebuild. They'll create new wealth because that's what they do. They identify

You're right that rent as a percentage of income has increased. In the 1890s, rent was about 15% of income. Today it's around 27%. But here's the full picture: In 1890, families spent 41% of income on FOOD alone. Today it's under 10%. Total cost of living was crushing despite

This is exactly the confusion @BladeoftheS and every other socialist promotes: they either don't understand capitalism, confuse it with cronyism, or willfully lie about it. "Technology changed" is not an explanation. WHY did technology advance? Because capitalism rewarded

Executive orders cannot make AI "better." They can only restrict its development and use. Innovation comes from free minds solving problems, not government mandates on "responsible use." If California's AI companies are world leaders, it's despite your regulations, not because

No Kings, but dictators are fine apparently. They marched against Trump holding flags of Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. Three dictatorships. They sold copies of the Communist Manifesto and chanted "only one solution, communist revolution" in Times Square. The ideology they are

Someone pointed out the claim about beheading babies was false. I did some some additional fact checking, which I normally triple check, but he is correct. Correction: Israel was invaded by terrorists who massacred approximately 1,139 people including 695 civilians, committed

You have to wonder if @BladeoftheS really believes this absurdity or if he's just professionally committed to economic illiteracy at this point. **134 years ago (1891):** • Life expectancy: 47 years • No electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing for most • No antibiotics

The confusion you're witnessing isn't a disconnect between social media and real life. It's the inevitable consequence of a nation that has never identified why it has the right to defend itself. For 47 years, conservatives have operated on subjectivist, altruist premises. They

The world is in moral and economic freefall and it is not an accident. It is the result of centuries without a rational moral framework. Men have operated on faith, feeling, and political whim as their guides to action. The result is what you see: collapsing economies, expanding

On the ToS argument: Yes, Meta set a minimum age of 13. Yes, they have internal data showing younger children use the platform. But who gave the 11-year-old the device, the internet connection, and the unsupervised access? The parent. An 11-year-old cannot sign a contract. The

A jury awarded $6 million because a young woman voluntarily used a free product for years and suffered emotional consequences. The lawyer convinced them with cupcakes and Bible parables. This is the altruist inversion at work. A human being with a volitional consciousness chose

Calls to “tax the rich” assume the people you choose to deal with are the problem, while the people you’re forced to deal with are the solution. The first has to earn your business. The second gets paid whether they deliver or not, and often more when they don’t, because failure

"Just two pennies!" she says, as if the looter's appetite has ever been satisfied by the first bite. Every tax in history started as "just a little." Income tax was 1% and temporary. Now explain to me how a woman who faked being Cherokee to get a Harvard job is the right person

This article commits the central error of modern philosophy: treating consciousness as a mystery because it refuses to accept what it is. Consciousness is not a "hard problem." It is an axiom. As Rand stated: it is the faculty of perceiving that which exists. It is an attribute

I don't doubt Massie is a man of principle. The problem is that his principles are floating abstractions. He holds the right to liberty as an axiom but cannot ground it in man's nature, cannot defend it epistemologically, and cannot apply it when reality demands action. This is

Anyone who believes a word the Iranian regime says has learned nothing from 47 years of lies, broken agreements, and dead Americans. This is a theocracy that signed the JCPOA and enriched uranium in secret. A regime that "agreed" to negotiations in February and was building

Two con artists on the same page - what a surprise. Krassenstein, you ran Ponzi scheme websites until the feds raided your house and seized $450,000. Now you're a professional reply guy who gets paid per engagement. You don't have principles - you have revenue streams. Newsom