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Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
βPunch a naziβ people when Bukele blows up a gang of cannibal pedophiles in Haiti
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
The social security issue in a nut shell..
Us in 1985 βitβs a stupid socialist program that will failβ
Them βzip it and cough up 12%β
US. in 1995 βitβs a stupid socialist program that will failβ
Them βzip it and cough up 12%β
Us in 2005 βitβs a stupid socialist program that will failβ
Them βzip it and cough up 12%β
Them in 2026 βyou should be fine with getting nothing because you said it was a stupid socialist program right?β
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
Now guess how much that $7.25 would be worth if the government stopped βmaking life more affordableβ by steadily making the dollar worth less.
Productivity isnβt a magic entitlement to a proportional wage increase. Productivity can rise because businesses invest in better machines, software, logistics and capital, not because every worker suddenly works proportionally harder.
Mandating wages based on resentment rather than economics doesnβt magically create the extra value needed to pay them. The adjustment can show up in higher prices, fewer jobs or hours, automation, or businesses absorbing lower returns.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
"When a child fears your reaction more than their mistake, what exactly are they learning?"
β Gabor MatΓ©
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
This is socialism, in a nutshell.
Tax the hard workers more, so that we can pay for the freeloaders who contribute nothing.
It's why socialism fails 100% of the time.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
A capitalist needs money and profit, but neither has to be their primary motivation.
A farmer may want to feed people, a doctor to heal them, a lawyer to pursue justice, or an entrepreneur to create something extraordinary.
Profit allows them to sustain, improve, and expand their work.
Communism, meanwhile, makes claims on other people's production central to its economic system, demanding that wealth be distributed according to politically determined needs.
The irony is that capitalists are accused of caring only about money, while communists make controlling its distribution a central political objective.
The capitalist understands that to sustain himself, he must earn money by producing value others are willing to pay for.
The communist believes he's entitled to a share of what others produce, whether they consent or not.
One relies on voluntary trade. The other ultimately relies on coercive redistribution.
The communist is more obsessed with money, particularly someone else's.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
One of the reasons I donβt like socialism is public bathrooms.
A public bathroom is about as basic a shared resource as you can get. Everyone gets to use it, and everyone is expected to show a little consideration for the next person. The rules arenβt particularly complicated.
And yet, a shocking number of adults canβt even manage to throw their paper towels in the trash. Some will pee all over a toilet seat and leave it for the next person. And the next person, who didnβt make the mess, certainly isnβt going to clean it up either.
Now imagine trusting these same people to collectively manage an entire economy.
We canβt even get everyone to agree that cleaning up their own pee is a personal responsibility, but somehow weβre supposed to believe everyone will become hardworking, responsible, and considerate when weβre sharing the fruits of each otherβs labor.
Now, compare your average public restroom to a Buc-eeβs bathroom.
Buc-eeβs figured something out. Clean bathrooms attract customers. Customers spend money. So the company has a financial incentive to keep those bathrooms spotless. They hire people to maintain them, hold employees accountable, and compete for your business.
And people will literally plan their road trips around stopping there.
Thatβs capitalism. Someone recognized a problem, found a way to solve it, and made money because people valued the result.
Of course, not everyone contributes equally to society. Some people work harder, make better decisions, and take more responsibility. Others seem perfectly content making life more difficult for everyone around them.
I believe people should have the freedom to live however they choose. I also believe in helping people who genuinely need it.
But I have a hard time accepting an economic philosophy that expects me to trust everyone to act in the collective interest when some people canβt be bothered to clean up after themselves.
Buc-eeβs figured out how to get people to willingly pay for a better experience.
Socialism wants me to believe the people leaving paper towels on the floor will suddenly become responsible stewards of everyone elseβs resources.
Iβm going with the beaver.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
None of this is true!
1. Billionaires donβt own all the wealth! The top 0.01% owns 15%, and billionaires are a subsection of that
2. Wages arenβt stagnating! Theyβre actually consistently rising.
3. Billionaires don't own all the housing. While thereβs no count ofβ¦
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
The left really went immediately from βwe canβt cancel a multi millionaire comedian for openly gloating over the brutal murder of a young fatherβ to βwe must cancel these random white girls for making noises into a ring camera for three seconds.β These are not serious people.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
A billionaire cutting prices to steal another billionaireβs customers is doing more for my cost of living than a socialist explaining why I should hate them both.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
American cosplay communists love pointing to China as a success story.
There's just one embarrassing detail.
China became substantially more prosperous after abandoning much of Mao's economic model and embracing private enterprise, profits, investment, and market competition.
Meanwhile, the Communist Party retains authoritarian control over the economy, making its system resemble fascist corporatism in important respects.
So their communist success story depends on capitalist economic reforms operating under an authoritarian state.
Quite the advertisement for communism.
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
When a nation of people see money being printed from nothing and apparently just given to fake billionaires all day long, it can tend to cause things like this
This is a college campus, right? Tell me again how the problems we're seeing in education only came after the covid lock down.
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Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
I canβt even believe what I just watched
American college student shows his professor at the University of Michigan
I canβt believe people are paying for this insanity. The teacher is Dr. Laura Yakas, she teaches βEngaging Social Justice, Diversity, and Oppression in Social Workβ
Sheβs literally singing about how horrible America is
When people say our college universities are liberal and Marxist indoctrination camps, THIS is what theyβre talking about
This woman needs to be fired
Colter Owen ππ»π§π retweeted
Socialism doesn't even have a good record when explained by socialists.
Before gaining power, it's often a promise of ever greater consumption with little regard for the production required to sustain it.
Once in power, authoritarian socialist regimes have relied on confiscation, coercion, forced labor, and wealth created under capitalism to pursue those promises.
The problem with socialism has never been who's explaining it. It's the principles being defended and the consequences of putting them into practice.
