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Sep 8 • 9 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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"Only 42% of Democrats view capitalism favorably, while 66% have a positive view of socialism."

The Democrat Party is now an urban party that has been taught for decades that socialism is any public program.

That is a lie. Let's see what socialism is and is not. Image
Socialism is a system in which the state owns the means of production. Now, socialists will tell you that the means of production are owned by "society." That is a lie. "Society" cannot own the means of production. It must be the state bureaucracy.
That is why every socialist system ends up being a heavily burdensome bureaucratic state.

Socialism is a system that orders society to be socialist and only socialist. There can be no other political or economic or sociological systems. There can be only socialism.
That is why every socialist state eventually crushes dissent and political opposition. No one cannot be socialist in a socialist state.

Socialism is a system that requires any private economic arrangements in a socialist state must bend to the bureaucracy.
The reason is simple - if the state permits private enterprise to become too large, they will undercut the control of the bureaucrats. It is why Cuba continues to place new restrictions on any private enterprise.

Socialism is a system with a lot in common with communism. Image
They both require extensive control by the state bureaucracy. They both end in the same place eventually. Quibbling about theoretical differences avoids the truth about socialism.

Socialism is a system that may start as democratic, but it ends with the crushing of rights.
Socialism is not public transportation, public healthcare, or any public welfare programs. Those programs are safety nets that exist in capitalist societies that depend on the wealth generated by capitalist societies.

Socialism is not compassion. It chops people down.
Everyone ends up equally poor eventually.

Socialism is not about freedom. Socialist societies restrict rights and free association. Socialism is the opposite of capitalism.
For decades, people have been taught that socialism provides welfare programs, roads, and other public programs that are available due to capitalism. They have been taught that socialism helps the poor.

That's why so many have a positive view of socialism. ANd it's all a lie.

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Aug 8
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Bad climate science and NASA is at the forefront of it. Here, NASA discusses how the burned area in the US appears to be increasing since 1983.

Why does NASA stop at 1983? Because the government is jiggering the results to amplify the fear. Let me explain. Image
The National Interagency Fire Center keeps the official records for forest fires and area burned. According to the NIFC, there are no official records for forest fire area burned before 1983 and it won't provide that data.

Weird, huh? Image
I mean, one would think that there is information regarding area burned prior to 1983. Well, there is. Bjorn Lomborg did a fantastic job four years ago going through the data.

This, of course, caused the media and climate scientists to throw a hissy fit. Image
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Aug 6
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In 2024, climate scientists published a paper in the journal, Nature, about the economic effects of climate change, asserting that the economic effects would be many times worse than previously reported.

That paper has been cited by politicians, news, and the UN. But.. Image
...it's wrong. Indeed, the results were so preposterous that all three peer-reviewers raised doubts during the peer review process. One said, "I have a major concern on the uncertainty and validity of the empirical...model they built and used for projections." Image
Another said, "it is somewhat difficult to comprehend the full rationale for the particular econometric specification that is used." The reviewer also noted that the authors needed more tests to support their conclusions. Image
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Aug 6
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A persistent myth on the left is that poor people eat sugary foods because it's cheaper. SNAP is a program that is supposed to supplement people's food budgets.

Let's see what I can buy on the average weekly benefit for a family of four. Image
The average monthly benefit for a family of four is $726, which translates to ~$169 per week ($726/4.3=168.83).

So, I shopped at Target and here is what I was able to buy:

1) 5 gallons of milk;
2) 10 pounds of chicken breast;
3) 5 pounds of ground beef; Image
4) 10 salad kits that provided 35 to 40 servings of salad per week and they don't even have to be made;
5) 2 pounds of tomatoes;
6) 5 pounds of oranges;
7) 3 boxes of cereal;
8) 2 loaves of bread;
9) 1 pound of cheese;
10) 2 pounds of bananas;
11) 2 pounds of apples;
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Aug 3
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Intersex. You have heard trans activists refer to intersex as proof that biological sex is "complex." You have likely heard that intersex people make up 1.7% of the population.

That statistic is a lie created by Anne Fausto-Sterling and repeated by hospitals for $. Image
Sterling is a "sexologist" who has long sought to "disrupt" the idea that biological sex has two sexes. In 1993, she claimed that there were five sexes - male, female, merm, ferm, and herm.

But her real contribution to misinformation was her paper claiming that 1.7% of the...
...population is intersex. To get to that number, she included a range of syndromes that no clinician considers intersex. The reason is that those syndromes are very clearly male or female but with developmental dysfunctions.
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Aug 1
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Recently, I went to Ocean Prime, a restaurant in Boston. It is very expensive. It is a place I would never go in my 20s. Appetizers start at $23. Entrees start at $39.

Yet, it was filled with people in their mid- to late-20s. I struck up a conversation with one of them. Image
He was a young man waiting for some friends. Three in fact. All of them his roommates. He lived in in a four-bedroom apartment in Boston. He couldn't afford to live with fewer people. No big deal. I asked him if they were going to eat at Ocean Prime. He told me it was...
..."their favorite restaurant." I asked how often they eat at Ocean Prime. "Once a month or something like that."

I was floored. Eventually, his friends showed up and off they went to their tables with their girlfriends.
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Jul 25
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Maui's government has decided to blame "outsiders" for its failures. According to the mayor, "This is...about restoring housing to residents and reducing our overdependence on tourism."

Let's see how progressive governance is the problem, and how this will harm Maui. Image
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When they get to those permits, they are required to get permits on separate applications and schedules for electrical, plumbing, grading, and driveway work. Once that is done, they must wait for an understaffed permitting office to issue each permit.
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