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Someone explain this to me like I’m five: How is a guy who has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose mother worked for a charity the U.S. designated for funneling money to bin Laden and other terrorists, whose father sits on a charity board that got caught moving cash to Saddam Hussein, whose sister is pro-Hamas and was arrested for spitting on a cop, and whose family has someone who ended up on a no-fly list, allowed to run for the United States Senate?
Abdul El-Sayed's father is board member of charity accused of funneling cash to Saddam Hussein trib.al/EdcDCH8
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Measuring the health of a society based on the gap between the richest and poorest is fundamentally wrong. It is just a convenient way for looters to create resentment, because a gap tells you nothing about whether anyone's life got better.
Run the test. If everyone's real income doubles but the top doubles faster, the gap widens and every person on earth is better off. If the richest lose half their money and nobody else gains a dollar, the gap narrows and not one poor family is helped. A measure that calls the first a failure and the second a success is tracking envy, not wellbeing.
Then look at who we are calling poor. A household below the poverty line in America typically has electricity, running hot water, central heat, a refrigerator, a stove, a microwave, air conditioning, a television, a smartphone and a car. That phone carries the accumulated knowledge of the human race and a map of the planet. A hundred years ago no king had any of it. In 1960 most middle-class families had about half.
That is what a century of production bought, and none of it came from closing a gap. It came from men building things and selling them cheaper than the year before.
The gap gets cited because it never closes and never runs out. A permanent grievance with a permanent remedy attached, which is taking more.
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It has nothing to do with Gaza or even Palestinians. It has simply become a global symbol for wanting the destruction of western civilization.
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Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
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This is a really incredible tweet because it lets you see into the mind of the average shitlib like Evan.
Evan has an internal mandate derived from a few axioms.
1. "All billionaires are evil"
2. "All Republicans are either stupid or evil"
3. "Everything that evil people do is itself evil"
From those axioms he logically concludes "Well if Elon did something I would normally find good, it actually is something that is bad."
So in this case he has a few options at his disposal:
1. He can criticize the motivation, claiming racism or some sort of nationalist argument
2. He could criticize the method, arguing that this is just a way to pump the stocks
3. He could criticize the speed at which the shares are distributed.
There's really an infinite list of little conspiracies that Evan could fabricate on the spot, but there's a reason he chose #3.
Ultimately Evan isn't against helping children, quite the opposite in fact. If there was a system that stripped Elon Musk of his wealth and distributed it to children in the US, Evan would 100% support this. What he's against is giving Elon credit for anything Elon does, even if that thing does help children. Because Evan, fundamentally, believes that everything that Billionaires do is in furtherance of their evil.
Evan wants to call this out. He wants to "inform" everyone that Elon is "still evil". Choosing option 1 and 2 still concedes that Elon is, in fact, pledging to help children. Option 3, however, implies is that Elon is actually deceiving children.
So that's where Evan ultimately hangs his hat. "Elon is deceiving children."
What's funny here is a quick google search can explain why Elon can't distribute his shares currently. Those shares are still subject to the IPO lockup for the next year.
Evan, however, doesn't *need* to find or utilize the truth, because he believes, deep down, that his axioms are actually the real truth. He believes he has a deeper knowledge than the "stupid rubes who don't hate Elon". Anything that Elon says or does, Evan can find some contrived excuse about why it is either untruthful or evil based on those axioms.
This is because Evan is a conspiracy theorist, whose axioms are fundamentally flawed. He is no different from a flat earther, who will simply ignore any evidence to the contrary of his beliefs.
He wasn't actively contemplating his beliefs when he wrote this tweet. He was acting on instinct, knowing what gets views, and running this as a 'dunk' which is likely why he neglected to fact check his statement before releasing it.
The only thing that flashed in his head was "Clearly Elon is hiding something," just like how flat earthers respond to any evidence from NASA. Evan focused on the 'next year' qualifier, and immediately had an "Ah ha!" moment and ran with it.
Ultimately, his revelation was false as the Community Note proved. He doesn't understand the broader implications of the topic he's talking about.
But that doesn't matter to Evan, because Evan is a conspiracy theorist. Evan fundamentally believes that any explanation that could be given for why Elon would have to wait next year would be false automatically, ultimately, because any rebuttal would violate his axioms, which he believes to be true.
Evan will never adjust these axioms.
Doing so will utterly obliterate his worldview.
So Evan will continue pretending that he has "secret knowledge" of the "true nature of billionaires". He will post as though he has it all figured out, when in reality he doesn't have the faintest clue about how the world works.
Just like a flat earther.
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530A accounts ("Trump Accounts") are a great solution for many ultra-wealthy Americans who are philanthropically inclined, do not want a foundation staff, do want to give while living, and haven't been inspired by existing nonprofits. It's an American version of “GiveDirectly."
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⚡️Musk is attempting something far more consequential than a $10.7 billion giveaway.
He’s creating a generation of Americans with a direct financial interest in the success of one of the country’s most strategically important companies.
The genius of the structure is the distribution. One share per child creates millions of individual ownership relationships while leaving concentrated corporate control largely intact. A $146 gift has limited immediate economic significance. Its potential power comes from what happens afterward.
Every SpaceX milestone becomes personal. Every increase in valuation raises the value of an asset held by American families. And every political battle involving SpaceX now has the potential to become a debate over the financial interests of those families.
Musk is attempting to convert corporate success into a form of distributed political legitimacy.
But the mechanism goes deeper.
SpaceX already operates in sectors central to American strategic power: launch infrastructure, satellite communications, and defense. Its relationship with Washington will become increasingly consequential as space infrastructure expands.
By distributing ownership across American children, Musk would begin aligning three constituencies that historically had different interests: shareholders, the federal government, and ordinary households.
That alignment becomes especially powerful if SpaceX continues appreciating over decades. Children who receive their first share could eventually become adults whose earliest investment was tied to America’s space infrastructure.
Musk is trying to turn SpaceX from a company Americans depend on into a company Americans feel they own.
And the deeper consequence is the precedent.
Private control of critical national infrastructure becomes easier to defend when millions of citizens have been given a financial stake in its success.
If executed, this would be an unusually ambitious attempt to transform concentrated corporate wealth into mass ownership without surrendering the underlying concentration of power.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he will donate one share of SpaceX stock, $SPCX, to every American child in 2027.
There are currently ~73 million children in the US and SpaceX is trading at $146/share.
This makes Elon Musk’s donation worth $10.7 billion based on current share price.
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In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.
Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.
The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.
A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.
"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."
That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?
Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.
So what actually works?
It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.
The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.
Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.
And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.
Now reread Elon's post.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."
That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.
A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.
Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.
The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant - this is THE way to build a prosperous society… get the kids skin in the game early - every adult should be teaching their kids about the market and getting them in early so they don’t become like the pathetic grifters we see so often today
Your move @BernieSanders
This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸
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This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸
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Bernie Sanders just accused a man of wanting children dead because he declined to hand over his property. That is the sentence of a man who has run out of arguments and reached for the only tool left, which is the charge of murder against anyone who tells him no.
So turn the question around. When Bernie is not working to seize what the producers built, what is he doing?
He is adding to a $40 trillion debt. He is defending a retirement system that hits insolvency in 2032 with an automatic 22 percent cut. He is working to end the last scrap of choice left in medicine, which eighty years of federal mandates and employer lock-in already stripped down to almost nothing. He is demanding a halt on the data centers and the energy that modern medicine runs on.
Then notice what Sergey Brin did with his life. He built the thing Bernie used to look up his net worth, which half the planet now uses for free. Every dollar he holds came from someone choosing his product.
Every dollar Bernie directs comes from someone who had no choice.
One of these men has fed the world. The other has spent 45 years admiring the countries where the lines form outside the bread stores, and calling the men who stock the shelves obscene.
The real question is why these men don't learn to defend themselves.
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Sounds like a golden opportunity to start a worker-owned cooperative and undercut those greedy corporations.
Pay workers more, charge customers less, and put the billionaires out of business.
If greed is all that's keeping prices high, what's stopping you?
Thank goodness capitalism gives socialists the freedom to put their theories to the test.
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This is an incredibly disingenuous and dishonest bit of political theater.
@AbdulElSayed is not being asked to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood because he's Muslim, but because he's taken money from CAIR, a MB group operating in the USA.
Because his dad worked for CAIR, his mother worked for a group funneling money to al Qaida, his in laws so questionable even the Obama administration had them on the terror watchlist. Because his own sister said his family were all loyal to the Brotherhood and its ideals.
But naturally he tries to flip the script, tries to graft himself and the entire MB crowd into a civil rights vision of the USA because it's the only chance they have. Convincing Americans that the 1400 year oppressors are somehow the oppressed.
Disgustingly, he compares himself to JFK and Catholics in the USA. Abdul, if you think in any way you're going to piggyback literal terrorism onto my faith please get lost right now. #DeusVult
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The West made the best societies and then decided to be the kindest societies in the world. And they get rewarded with ungrateful assholes like wemby telling the kids to burn it down because of made up victimhood.
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Nothing out of the ordinary happening in France, or in Italy, or in Belgium, or in Europe, keep walking
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One of socialism's most glaring contradictions is that it condemns the very people who achieve what it claims to want for everyone.
Try and fail, and you're a victim of exploitation. Don't even try, and somehow you're still a victim.
But try and succeed, and suddenly you're the exploiter, the oppressor, public enemy number one.
And for what? Producing something others voluntarily value enough to pay for?
An ideology that excuses failure, rewards dependency, and vilifies achievement should hardly be surprised when it produces more of the first two and less of the third.