PhD Candidate @wakeforestmed🧬 || RNA Biochemist || Neurodegeneration|| Political Philosophy|| Pro-liberty || Pro-Free market|| Anti-Totalitarian||
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Solomon Punobyin retweeted
What’s amazing to me, is that many parents have decided to homeschool their children so that they would not be exposed to Marxist concepts like CRT.
Unfortunately, many of the oppressor/oppressed narratives that treat a lot of tragedies as sheer hate-fueled events that must be legislatively “progressed” from, rather than staged instigations that must be examined with discernment and wisdom, STILL persists in a lot of the “Christian” home school history curriculums and unit studies.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
If Democrats are smart they would use the next two years trying to implement elements of the so-called “abundance agenda” to increase affordability in areas like housing and permitting reform and even increasing energy production of all types (yes, including fossils).
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Do you know why the US doesn't have high speed rail? Because politicians who don't have STEM degrees make so much regulations, that the cost to build rail is 3~5x higher in the US compared globally. Now, the Democrats are about to give China the lead in AI. Idiots!
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
"Socialism is fascist in politics and fascism is socialist in economics. Both doctrines concentrate control over individual decisions in the hands of a minority and turn economic dependence into an instrument of political domination."
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Walmart's CEO received $29.24 million in annual compensation. Walmart employs over 2 million people.
Take his entire compensation and distribute it equally among employees, and each gets less than $15 a year, or roughly 0.7 cents an hour.
Now raise everyone's wages by $5 an hour and you're looking at over $20 billion annually.
This is why understanding basic arithmetic matters more than being outraged by big numbers.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
“The Communist Manifesto, which everyone knows by name and which almost no one takes the trouble to read, contains even more terrible things than what has actually been done. The whole world can read, yet somehow no one wants to understand.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
No matter which party controls Congress, spending goes up. The uniparty is in the driver’s seat, and the bills keep getting bigger.
My Six Penny Plan would cut six cents off every projected dollar that the federal government spends, and balance the budget in 5 years. It’s not complicated. Washington just needs the will to do it.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
7 countries (6 in Africa) are poorer than they were in 1960, after $329 billion in aid. It is hardly surprising for anyone who has studied development issue seriously. Here are three books by some top African scholars (in my humble opinion) on this very topic.
1. Dead Aid — Dambisa Moyo (2009)
Zambian economist Moyo argues that long-term foreign aid can entrench corruption, weaken government accountability, and perpetuate dependency. She advocates a transition toward trade, investment, and other sources of development finance.
2. Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa’s Future — George B. N. Ayittey (2005)
Ghanaian economist Ayittey argues that predatory states and elite-driven development strategies have held Africa back. He proposes building prosperity around African entrepreneurs, farmers, and indigenous traditions of markets and accountable governance.
3. Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing — Moeletsi Mbeki (2009)
South African political economist Mbeki examines how political and economic elites enrich themselves while perpetuating poverty. He argues that development requires changing economic structures that reward elite consumption and extraction at the expense of productive enterprise.
My own research focus has always been China's food security and energy security within a changing climate, and within the global context. Because of China's increasing investment into Africa and aid to Africa, I have also engaged in a few research projects on China-Africa collaboration in the last decade. At the beginning of this research journey, I asked for recommended readings on Africa within my social circles. These three books are the best among all the book/article recommendations I received.
My own work with the NGO circle also confirmed many themes in these books. I witnessed cases how environmental NGOs and aid NGOs have been counter-productive for Africa development. I will write them up in the future, you are welcome to subscribe to my free substack (link in bio) if you want to follow that.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Cuba hasn’t had a free election in more than six decades. Never take yours for granted.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
$SNDK keeps falling. Just like I said...
Now: $1,111.80
Top of my buy zone: $909.16 (-18%)
Buy zone: $509.32 – $909.16
Almost there.
Who's still holding from $1,900?
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
As an ex-communist who actually read Marx, I hate communism with every molecule of my being.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Nowhere produces more economic illiterates than universities.
You go in with common sense & a basic understanding of how the world works, you come out with a sheet of paper, bad math skills, even worse economic knowledge, less common sense, & most important of all, arrogance.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Maybe we should try capitalism as opposed to corporatism. That’d be ideal. Read Mises folks.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
Capitalism isn't a promise that everyone gets what they want.
Capitalism is the opportunity for people to work toward their goals without being forced into a one-size-fits-all state central planning policy.
Solomon Punobyin retweeted
I am now the victim of some kind of Phobia from Mehdi Hasan, I am not sure what but I will get back to you.
“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is taken all at once.” - David Hume
Communications Minister Sam George has questioned why Ghana has nearly 700 radio stations and 120 TV stations, calling the situation “media tyranny." He says some religious bodies use business entities to secure broadcast licences and argues that media outlets affiliated with political or religious groups should be shut down. He also explained why an earlier plan to close 64 media houses was put on hold after the President intervened.
As a matter of fact, the said tradition you’re repudiating started the independence movement. The said political movement didn’t believe that freedom from colonialism means rejecting all of the inherited institutions of state that came along with it. Whatever was good we ought to keep and those that were not we reject. They didn’t operate a fascist government like your first leader did, they didn’t sell the country to Mao or the Soviet. They didn’t spend the last century rewriting history like you guys are doing.
You can disagree with their approach but to call them sellouts and evil is simply ridiculous and untrue.
