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I'm living proof that being right doesn't make you popular. Or rich. I guess that's an indictment of the culture. A free market would fix this if we had one. Joined December 2024

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5 days ago

Sometimes I think Trump is pretty bad, but then I look at the UK and Europe and see people getting arrested for memes, and I think, under Harris, that would have been the USA, too.

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Two separate issues: Citizens should be allowed to burn flags; it's free speech. But foreigners shouldn't be allowed to come here and claim "rights" if they intend to deprive us of those same rights. How to you determine what they intend? Their actions and their speech.

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a month ago

When people endorse self-sacrifice as the pinnacle of morality, why should we be surprised to see their whole civilization sacrificing itself?

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a month ago

In the court of public opinion, censorship is obstruction of justice.

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a month ago

There's a big difference between immigration -- which pertains to individuals who want to join a country -- and invasion or colonization, which pertains to vast numbers of people who want to overrun a country and take it over. No country that respects individual rights should…

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2 months ago

Whenever one person is getting money for nothing, another person is getting nothing for their money.

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2 months ago

A religious person is one who, upon seeing a contradiction between their beliefs and the evidence, sides with their beliefs.

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2 months ago

Due to the Cantillon effect, "making money" and "being productive" have almost completely decoupled.

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2 months ago

Most of the economy is a scam now. You almost can't make money by being productive; most people make money by scamming. There is little worth buying, either. Mostly if you try to buy something, you get scammed. This has to end -- and it will, one way or another.

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

Hey @xai, the API already has 'tool use' capability, but what do you think of adding 'tool use' to the user interface in X or on grok.com? The user would have to provide 'tools' for Grok to use by providing HTTPS URLs and credentials for those tools, and the tools…

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2 months ago

We need a free market in labor. Free markets clear. Prices would tend toward what people are worth; any disparities would create arbitrage opportunities. But many people don't like what prices are telling them. So they impose price controls, which create unemployment.

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2 months ago

I'll admit I like anime. One thing I like about it is that it has the pursuit of excellence as a recurring theme. But I've found in my real-life career that people don't pursue excellence. They pursue mediocrity and replaceability. They hate excellence.

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3 months ago

I wish X had a "No Videos" option.

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3 months ago

I don't want preferential treatment. I just want a level playing field. (Which means nobody else gets preferential treatment either.)

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3 months ago

I just unpublished an article about "H-1B and Central Planning." I suppose I didn't think it through... but I still think we don't have a free market when it comes to labor in the USA, and I think H-1B is itself a kind of market manipulation.

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Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand

3 months ago

You claim America was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics? Let’s test that—side by side—because the Bible and the Constitution are not siblings. They’re opposites. 1. Authority: Bible: Power flows from God to rulers, then to the people. Constitution: Power flows from the people,…

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zigory @zigory

4 months ago

There are more negatives than mentioned in this essay, such as negotiations with Iran, overuse of Executive Orders, sloppy application of pardons &threats against media outlets, but compared to the only current political alternative, I agree with Bernstein capitalismmagazine.com/2025/05/trump-…