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I love the magical conception socialists have of their ideology.
Apparently, socialism means everyone gets affordable food, housing, healthcare, and a comfortable retirement, while nobody has to worry about producing any of it.
How? By transferring control of production and distribution to politicians, who will presumably abolish scarcity, eliminate incompetence, and develop an unprecedented resistance to corruption.
And when the inevitable shortages arrive, they'll blame capitalism for failing to produce what they prevented it from producing.
It's remarkable how confidently people advocate an economic system without demonstrating the slightest understanding of economics.
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DSA candidate Tim Denson tries to sell the crowd on “democratizing the workplace” and says Walmart should belong to the workers.
Big mistake. The guy 6 ft away from him grew up in Venezuela. And he’s heard this communist fairy tale before.
DANIEL DI MARTINO: “So you want to take it [Walmart] from its owners and have the workers do what?”
TIM DENSON: “I want the workers to own it and get paid better and have better benefits and be able to provide better lives for their families.”
DI MARTINO: “We can buy shares in Walmart right now. In fact, all of the SpaceX workers became millionaires overnight.”
“You can start a workers’ cooperative right now. It’s legal, but under a socialist country, you’re not allowed to own your own property and start your own private corporation.”
Denson tried to refute Di Martino’s point. Then Di Martino dropped this line on him:
DI MARTINO: “It’s very easy to be a socialist in a capitalist country. It’s illegal to be a capitalist in a socialist country. That is the difference.”
[audience applause]
Then it got personal:
DI MARTINO: “When I had to go to the grocery store, Tim, I had to put my fingerprint in a scanning machine so that they would tell me what I was allowed to purchase.”
“And I could only go Mondays and Saturdays because we have to ration food, because that’s what happens when there’s no profit motive and the farmers, their food is confiscated because they had to sell it to the government and everybody else at the price the government tells the farmers.”
“My mom made chocolate bonbons for parties.”
“Well, people have a right to chocolate, so we had a price control on chocolate.”
“So my mom had to buy counterfeit chocolate, put it in black bags as if we were cocaine drug dealers. That’s what socialism was in Venezuela. That’s what worker ownership of the means of production is.”
“Where has it ever worked?”
Denson had no answer. Because there isn’t one.
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When they say “AIPAC,” they don’t mean Israel, they mean Jews.
Do you think Bibi Netanyahu or anyone in Israel’s govt has spent even a minute thinking about Chicago public schools in the past 50 years?
The left has imported Third World conspiracism that blames the Jews for all social ills—including failing public schools in Chicago that the left has controlled for decades.
It’s just like the corrupt Arab govts that say “don’t blame us for all your misery, it’s the Jews’ fault!”
It’s a psy-op for those in power to escape accountability. America has been practically immune to this illness for 250 years, which is why America has thrived. Succumb to it, and we’ll end up like the Third World—as Europe is discovering.
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Ross Douthat: “Does Palestine have a right to exist?”
Abdul El-Sayed: “yes!”
RD: “Does Israel?”
AES: “uhhhhhh… well, uh, with a shared understanding.”
RD: “wait a second…what?”
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This resonates with me, although my experience was almost the reverse.
I grew up in Dubai pre Abraham Accords, so I had zero interaction with Jewish people growing up.
I did, however, hear plenty of antisemitic jokes & comments.
What often confused me was that most racist jokes seemed to revolve around supposed racial inferiority.
But with Jewish people, it was the opposite in that they were supposedly too good at making money, running businesses, and accumulating influence.
Maybe it was my Asian striver cultural mindset, but even as a kid I remember questioning why being good at those things are somehow undesirable?
Fast forward to Duke freshmen year. All 4 guys on my side of the dorm were Jewish and so I ended up rushing and joining AEPi (about 2/3 Jewish at Duke).
I have genuinely never felt excluded for not being Jewish.
I was regularly invited to Shabbat dinners at the Duke Chabad, where Rabbi Nossen was one of the kindest person who I’ve ever met.
And eventually, the guys even elected a practicing Catholic (me) to be their fraternity president.
Meanwhile, I’ve noticed something strange in my other social circles, particularly among my more socialist-leaning friends.
People who would recoil at the slightest insinuation of racial stereotyping in any other context
will note Jewish overrepresentation in media, finance, technology, and then suggest that these activities are somehow inherently parasitic.
This has made me suspect that there is a correlation between certain forms of antisemitism and anti-capitalism.
Whether a fundamentally zero-sum understanding of the economy makes certain antisemitic narratives particularly attractive.
Consider that the Jewish people, leas than 0.2% of the world’s population,
account for 1/4 of individual Nobel laureates and approximately 40% of economics laureates.
Whether you see this as evidence of an “international Jewish conspiracy,”
or what becomes possible within a culture that places enormous value on learning, curiosity, and debate;
that regards the world as God’s creation, worthy of being studied, understood, and repaired;
and that emphasizes family, community, just charity, and mutual responsibility,
is probably correlated with whether you see success itself as evidence of value EXTRACTED, or as evidence of value CREATED for the wider world.
Perhaps what appears to be the resentment of a particular group reveals a deeper resentment of the very virtues, norms, values, and propensities through which human prosperity and progress is created.
I grew up around primarily Jewish people.
It wasn’t till about two years ago when I realized a majority of people are actually incredibly antisemitic. Even my “normal” friends would consistently make jokes at the expense of the Jewish people.
The amount of people who would make antisemitic jokes in my presence, has grown within the last two years.
But the jokes don’t stop at antisemitism, they carried on notions of white greatness and white nationalism on a grand scale.
I am genuinely disturbed at the sheer number of white people who treat this behavior as normal, when I was raised among people where I was the minority and the only girl to celebrate Christmas in my class.
I celebrate Shabbat with my jewish friends on a majority of Fridays, I am genuinely in shock at this behavior. We have a huge antisemitism problem in this country.
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Some parents proudly cheer their kids on in sports.
Some parents affiliate with the Muslim Brotherhood.
America in 2026 - choose wisely.
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south africa went from a first world country with nuclear power and one of the largest railway systems in the world to a third world country in just 30 years
progress is not a guarantee. decay is the natural state of things
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So weird how all his surrogates happen to be insane bigots who hate Jews and America. Must just be a coincidence.
EXCLUSIVE:
Abdul El-Sayed Campaigns with Antisemitic Nation of Islam 'Student Minister' Who Recently Pushed Conspiracy Theory that Jews Ran the Slave Trade
Marcus Muhammad is an acolyte of Louis Farrakhan and touted Farrakhan seminars praising Hitler.
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Someone explain this to me like I’m five: How is a guy who has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose mother worked for a charity the U.S. designated for funneling money to bin Laden and other terrorists, whose father sits on a charity board that got caught moving cash to Saddam Hussein, whose sister is pro-Hamas and was arrested for spitting on a cop, and whose family has someone who ended up on a no-fly list, allowed to run for the United States Senate?
Abdul El-Sayed's father is board member of charity accused of funneling cash to Saddam Hussein trib.al/EdcDCH8
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Measuring the health of a society based on the gap between the richest and poorest is fundamentally wrong. It is just a convenient way for looters to create resentment, because a gap tells you nothing about whether anyone's life got better.
Run the test. If everyone's real income doubles but the top doubles faster, the gap widens and every person on earth is better off. If the richest lose half their money and nobody else gains a dollar, the gap narrows and not one poor family is helped. A measure that calls the first a failure and the second a success is tracking envy, not wellbeing.
Then look at who we are calling poor. A household below the poverty line in America typically has electricity, running hot water, central heat, a refrigerator, a stove, a microwave, air conditioning, a television, a smartphone and a car. That phone carries the accumulated knowledge of the human race and a map of the planet. A hundred years ago no king had any of it. In 1960 most middle-class families had about half.
That is what a century of production bought, and none of it came from closing a gap. It came from men building things and selling them cheaper than the year before.
The gap gets cited because it never closes and never runs out. A permanent grievance with a permanent remedy attached, which is taking more.
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It has nothing to do with Gaza or even Palestinians. It has simply become a global symbol for wanting the destruction of western civilization.
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Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This post copies word-for-word a May 2026 post by @AdemLuz.
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This is a really incredible tweet because it lets you see into the mind of the average shitlib like Evan.
Evan has an internal mandate derived from a few axioms.
1. "All billionaires are evil"
2. "All Republicans are either stupid or evil"
3. "Everything that evil people do is itself evil"
From those axioms he logically concludes "Well if Elon did something I would normally find good, it actually is something that is bad."
So in this case he has a few options at his disposal:
1. He can criticize the motivation, claiming racism or some sort of nationalist argument
2. He could criticize the method, arguing that this is just a way to pump the stocks
3. He could criticize the speed at which the shares are distributed.
There's really an infinite list of little conspiracies that Evan could fabricate on the spot, but there's a reason he chose #3.
Ultimately Evan isn't against helping children, quite the opposite in fact. If there was a system that stripped Elon Musk of his wealth and distributed it to children in the US, Evan would 100% support this. What he's against is giving Elon credit for anything Elon does, even if that thing does help children. Because Evan, fundamentally, believes that everything that Billionaires do is in furtherance of their evil.
Evan wants to call this out. He wants to "inform" everyone that Elon is "still evil". Choosing option 1 and 2 still concedes that Elon is, in fact, pledging to help children. Option 3, however, implies is that Elon is actually deceiving children.
So that's where Evan ultimately hangs his hat. "Elon is deceiving children."
What's funny here is a quick google search can explain why Elon can't distribute his shares currently. Those shares are still subject to the IPO lockup for the next year.
Evan, however, doesn't *need* to find or utilize the truth, because he believes, deep down, that his axioms are actually the real truth. He believes he has a deeper knowledge than the "stupid rubes who don't hate Elon". Anything that Elon says or does, Evan can find some contrived excuse about why it is either untruthful or evil based on those axioms.
This is because Evan is a conspiracy theorist, whose axioms are fundamentally flawed. He is no different from a flat earther, who will simply ignore any evidence to the contrary of his beliefs.
He wasn't actively contemplating his beliefs when he wrote this tweet. He was acting on instinct, knowing what gets views, and running this as a 'dunk' which is likely why he neglected to fact check his statement before releasing it.
The only thing that flashed in his head was "Clearly Elon is hiding something," just like how flat earthers respond to any evidence from NASA. Evan focused on the 'next year' qualifier, and immediately had an "Ah ha!" moment and ran with it.
Ultimately, his revelation was false as the Community Note proved. He doesn't understand the broader implications of the topic he's talking about.
But that doesn't matter to Evan, because Evan is a conspiracy theorist. Evan fundamentally believes that any explanation that could be given for why Elon would have to wait next year would be false automatically, ultimately, because any rebuttal would violate his axioms, which he believes to be true.
Evan will never adjust these axioms.
Doing so will utterly obliterate his worldview.
So Evan will continue pretending that he has "secret knowledge" of the "true nature of billionaires". He will post as though he has it all figured out, when in reality he doesn't have the faintest clue about how the world works.
Just like a flat earther.
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530A accounts ("Trump Accounts") are a great solution for many ultra-wealthy Americans who are philanthropically inclined, do not want a foundation staff, do want to give while living, and haven't been inspired by existing nonprofits. It's an American version of “GiveDirectly."
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⚡️Musk is attempting something far more consequential than a $10.7 billion giveaway.
He’s creating a generation of Americans with a direct financial interest in the success of one of the country’s most strategically important companies.
The genius of the structure is the distribution. One share per child creates millions of individual ownership relationships while leaving concentrated corporate control largely intact. A $146 gift has limited immediate economic significance. Its potential power comes from what happens afterward.
Every SpaceX milestone becomes personal. Every increase in valuation raises the value of an asset held by American families. And every political battle involving SpaceX now has the potential to become a debate over the financial interests of those families.
Musk is attempting to convert corporate success into a form of distributed political legitimacy.
But the mechanism goes deeper.
SpaceX already operates in sectors central to American strategic power: launch infrastructure, satellite communications, and defense. Its relationship with Washington will become increasingly consequential as space infrastructure expands.
By distributing ownership across American children, Musk would begin aligning three constituencies that historically had different interests: shareholders, the federal government, and ordinary households.
That alignment becomes especially powerful if SpaceX continues appreciating over decades. Children who receive their first share could eventually become adults whose earliest investment was tied to America’s space infrastructure.
Musk is trying to turn SpaceX from a company Americans depend on into a company Americans feel they own.
And the deeper consequence is the precedent.
Private control of critical national infrastructure becomes easier to defend when millions of citizens have been given a financial stake in its success.
If executed, this would be an unusually ambitious attempt to transform concentrated corporate wealth into mass ownership without surrendering the underlying concentration of power.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he will donate one share of SpaceX stock, $SPCX, to every American child in 2027.
There are currently ~73 million children in the US and SpaceX is trading at $146/share.
This makes Elon Musk’s donation worth $10.7 billion based on current share price.
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In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.
Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.
The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.
A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.
"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."
That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?
Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.
So what actually works?
It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.
The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.
Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.
And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.
Now reread Elon's post.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."
That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.
A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.
Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.
The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.