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Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
The schools are NOT "failing" your kids. The schools are doing exactly what they're meant for, and very well. Normal people presume that the schools are designed to educate your kids. That's not how the communist sees them. The school is how they kidnap your child. The socialist is like a pedophile...they like to prey on kids and groom them.
Communists have slowly infiltrated every single layer of institutional education and perverted it to feed their dogma into the soft heads of your vulnerable children.
This isn't some abstract paranoia...this was a deliberate soviet socialist strategy going back decades. It is called the "long march through the institutions". After several generations of teachers educating kids with increasingly communist ideology, with zero patriotic influence to balance it out, you eventually get to a point (usually 2-3 generations), where EVERY American institution is saturated with communists...government, entertainment, businesses (hello, Nike)...now, no matter where you turn, your child is now influenced ENTIRELY by the ideology of your enemy. Who's pushing back on this?
The Denver Communists out in full force indoctrinating kids and telling them that Capitalism is responsible for killing millions of people. Parents educate your children because public schools in Denver are failing them. And people wonder why homeschooling is up 50% in some counties and why parents are putting their children in charter schools and private schools. Public schools are closing everywhere because of lack of students!!!!
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
This parasite, @BernieSanders, has scammed the American taxpayers for many decades. He knows nothing; contributes nothing; achieves nothing; says nothing; BUT he believes that you owe him your hard-earned money because it is unfair that @elonmusk has more money than you do.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
I know a guy
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
It's been 3 months since the 100x vibers started 100x vibin'! So, post your 25-years-of-work-equivalent project here, so we can signal boost and everyone can celebrate the Life's Work that you did in 3 months. Looking forward to it, Let's Go!!!
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
Even though I knew his death was coming, as he told us it would, I still can’t believe he has died.
Rest in peace, good and great man, rest in peace.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
One of my favorite lessons I’ve learnt from working with smart people:
Action produces information. If you’re unsure of what to do, just do anything, even if it’s the wrong thing. This will give you information about what you should actually be doing.
Sounds simple on the surface - the hard part is making it part of your every day working process.
Aim high.
Then take small steps.
Finish something. You need reps, not best practices.
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Meanwhile the cabin air is at 1165 ppm CO2 slowly deleting your IQ.
P.S. Normal range is 400-800 ppm.
Vladislav Gapurov retweeted
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani:
“The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession”
“I think that annoys the fuck out of these people”
If you live in Europe, this will sound familiar:
One of the greatest illusions of our time is the belief that we live under capitalism; in a system of free markets, honest prices, and open competition.
But what we have today is not capitalism. It is a distorted reflection of it, a painted corpse sold to us as freedom.
Those who rail the loudest against capitalism understand its principles the least. They regulate and strangle, create monopolies, lobbyism, inequality, and then blame the “evil capitalists” when nothing works.
We do not live in capitalism; we live in corporatism, a symbiosis of state and corporation, where laws have become a commodity.
It is no longer the consumer who decides, but the lobbyist. No longer innovation that rules, but proximity to power.
Licenses, subsidies, and patents have replaced competition. Those who play the political game win; those who question it lose.
The entrepreneur is no longer a creator, but a petitioner.
He no longer fights for customers, but for permits.
And the politician who sells himself calls it “responsibility.”
Both profit, only the citizen pays the price.
Thus arise the monopolies that are blamed on capitalism: not because the market has failed, but because it has been shackled.
Microsoft, Google, BlackRock, they do not exist despite regulation, but because of it. They write the laws that build their protective walls.
Capitalism is voluntary exchange.
Corporatism is institutionalized robbery.
It is the state that turns success into a privilege and property into a matter of permission.
We do not live in capitalism.
We live in an alliance of coercion, deception, and convenience.
And as long as people wake up in the morning afraid of a world without the state and its artificially contrived authority, this problem will not vanish.
The state is not the guardian of the free market, it is its violent oppressor.
via @Die_Libertaeren
"I have found people willing to tolerate any level of chronic pain in order to avoid acute pain. People would much rather lose slowly over five years than have the conversation that involves a dramatic change to stop losing"
via @pmarca
