Philosophy—Music—Reason—Freedom

Franklin, MA
Joined December 2014
“But more importantly, you have to suffer here. Everyone is sacrificing for the team.” WTF? These guys are having the time of their lives—and rightly so! Also, this ref sucks.
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A quick argument against democratic socialism: If worker-owned firms are more efficient, they needn’t be mandated If worker-owned firms are less efficient, they shouldn’t be mandated
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George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson—they’d all be ashamed of today’s political leaders. Yes, the Founders were flawed, but they weren’t fraudulent. If we want the return of genuine statesmen, we must demand better.
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Mark Cuban credits "The Fountainhead" as a major influence on his success. So do countless other entrepreneurs. Here's why this 80-year-old novel is still creating business legends 🧵
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📹 How do tariffs increase the cost of imported goods? What are their impacts on consumers? @maggiemoda on a new FEExplains video.
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Individualism isn’t blue hair, piercings and tattoos. It’s an active and independent minded person who understands that they and every other person are ends unto themselves.
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Jamie Dimon is not fucking around today… “China is an adversary, but what I really worry about is the enemy within. Can we get our own act together, our own values and capabilities. This time is different… we have to get our act together and quickly.”
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Jon Hersey retweeted
This hidden law is making American healthcare more expensive.
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It's like when I go to wrap a gift, I lose even the most basic motor skills. Is there an entry for this in the DSM?
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George Washington on partisanship in his Farewell Address: This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed;
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the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual;
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and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.
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BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle. He was ignored. xitter.cf/gs_mick/status/1812268…
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Mostly peaceful assassination attempt
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Well, this looks suspiciously prescient NOW, doesn't it.
I want to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks. Trump promised the NRA that he’d do nothing about guns. And he means it.
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You can't protect the political process from those who (allegedly) subvert it by subverting it yourself.
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Another puppet whose programming has gone wrong.
Replying to @thejcoop
I did it on 1.5 speed. Same arm motions, right arm high and left arm low (about what has been). She built this like Obama did his talking points and you’ll have to pry this from her cold dead hands.
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“The predictable result [of Chevron deference] was that administrative agencies began interpreting laws in ways that expanded their own power. In other words, a ‘restrained’ judiciary ended up meaning an unrestrained bureaucracy.” @TimothySandefur
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