Thomas Sowell once asked, “What was Hayek's message, that it stirred so many people in so many ways?” “Avoiding the facile dichotomizing of the political spectrum into left and right,” Sowell wrote, “The Road to Serfdom attacked fascism, socialism and communism as kindred forms of collectivism, relying on kindred arguments and tactics in undermining the kinds of institutions which made freedom possible.”

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"I think the probability of a good outcome is like 80% likely... only 20% chance of annihilation." - Elon Musk So I made a music video that takes you on a tour of both outcomes.

She responded by sharing images of ATHLETES. Thinking that would help her case SHE is not an ATHLETE! She has NOTHING to do with sports

If someone tells you that someone is just a clump of cells, she is telling you who she wants to kill. If someone tells you that something is just a social construct, he is telling you what he wants to abolish. If a group tells you that somewhere is just an idea, they are telling you what they wish to destroy.

Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with). I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too. anyhumanever.com/

On This Day — August 16, 1948 A Greek Catholic bishop recorded the real reason so many Arabs left their homes during the war. Bishop George Hakim told a Lebanese newspaper: “The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ‘Zionist gangs’ very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.” They left because their leaders promised them a swift, total victory over the Jews. They were told to clear the way so the Arab armies could finish the job. The Arab armies failed. This is what was originally called the Nakba. The failure to destroy the Jewish state at birth. Decades later, it was rebranded as a story about refugees. They started a war of annihilation. They lost. And they have spent the decades since demanding the world treat that defeat as the original sin of the conflict.

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Here’s one of a little human, almost as high.

Mayor Mamdani wants New York City to run five grocery stores selling food at 30% below market price, and you already know how this ends because Ludwig von Mises told you in 1944. Consider the man who runs a private grocery. He watches his shelves. When cabbage rots and steak sells out, he learns something: prices, profits, and losses feed him a constant stream of information about what New Yorkers actually want. He adjusts. He hates waste because waste comes out of his own pocket. That discipline keeps millions of stores and supermarkets across the globe stocked with everything from plantains to kosher salt. Now hand the store to a municipal manager. What guides him? Nothing does. Mises identified the core problem precisely: "The paradox of 'planning' is that it cannot plan, because of the absence of economic calculation." "What is called a planned economy is no economy at all. It is just a system of groping about in the dark." A city clerk selling milk below cost has no profit signal telling him whether he stocked too much or too little. He has a budget and a rulebook. The 30% discount is the tell. Wholesalers charge the city the same as they charge Gristedes. Rent in Brooklyn does not fall because the landlord is renting to a bureaucrat. Refrigeration, labor, spoilage, theft: all real, all paid. So the missing 30% comes from your taxes. You subsidize your own groceries and pay a middleman salaried by the Department of Whatever to hand them back to you at a loss. Efficient? Mises again: "The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations." Watch what happens when tomatoes run short. The private grocer raises the price a nickel and orders more. The city store keeps the mandated price, sells out by noon, and posts a handwritten sign: OUT OF STOCK. Shortages stem directly from price controls. Venezuela tried this with Mercal. Cuba runs it now with ration books and empty shelves. The USSR perfected the queue. New York will get the queue too. I will be getting out the popcorn to watch this monumental disaster unfold in real time.

This is COMMUNISM. We have history to show exactly what will happen: 1) Gov opens subsidized grocery stores at 30% below cost. 2) Local stores can’t compete and go under. The city store becomes the only option. 3) Shelves go empty. Rationing starts (“2 per customer”). There will be daily rushes, hoarding, and lines around the block. 4) Quality quietly tanks. Wilted produce, thinner cuts, fewer choices. 5) The subsidy bill balloons forever. You didn’t solve hunger. You just built another Soviet bread line.

Here's something truly funny in the darkest possible manner. The "unflattering" traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common: They are all indications of—are you ready for it—the Big Five trait conscientiousness. Conscientiousness is the best known personality predictor of life success after general cognitive ability (otherwise known as intelligence). So this means that the idiot leftists who developed and promoted such material proclaim their antiracism by insisting that the very trait most associated with productivity, reliability, diligence, and success is a flaw, unique to white people. Hard work is key to success. Work before play. Delayed gratification. Future orientation. Planning. Punctuality. Self-reliance. Respect for authority. Pure conscientiousness. "Yo--those n-words shore are lazee..." Sincerely, The Democratic Socialists of America You can't make this stuff up. In truth, by the way, racial differences in the major personality traits are negligible.