Joel Salazar

Ethnic cleansing is what Hamas wants and what has effectively happened in most of the Arab world.

Previous forecasts of humans being replaced by tech didn't materialize because AI progress hit a wall. Two years ago that wall was shattered by OpenAI, and now when a new wall was hit due to high training energy costs, DeepSeek shattered that wall. So yes, it seems this time will be different.

Yeah, just get it done right now, before the shutdown.

It's fun to see $VOO up and $VUAA tremendously down, even when both track the SP500. The fact that London is one step behind New York translates far beyond the time difference.

Where did you read that? Remember, everyone is trying to sell their own views as truth. Mexico in the late 90s was, perhaps, at its best, which is not saying much, but the current political actors, which are far worse for the country, use those decades for propaganda now.

Twitter has become unusable because Elon is forcing himself on every inch of the platform. However, Bluesky users are not committing themselves to making it a real alternative yet.

UnitedHealth maximizes profits, as it should. Small profits don't attract investors. Government’s role is to remove barriers to competition. If better alternatives exist, what barriers stop users from switching?
Removing those barriers is more effective than asking CEOs to attract less investment.

#Trump and #Elon praise libertarian Javier Milei for slashing spending and taming inflation in Argentina, but they forget to mention the tremendous rise in poverty and indigence these measures have caused. It's easy to tame inflation when people don't have money to spend.

GDP PPP is not optimal when comparing economy sizes, it works better on a per-capita basis. This chart says China's output could buy more basic baskets of goods than the US, and they should bc they have more ppl, however it doesn't mean it could buy more oil, steel, gold or chips than the US.

Elon and Trump praise Putin, but he 2x the number of bureocrats monitoring the economy between 2008 and 2013, raised taxes and harshly diminished economic freedom. The result: the stock market fell almost 40% from 2008 to 2020, even before covid and the war. He is the antithesis of what they preach.

It is hard to empathize with people who think the only way economically successful people got there is by cheating or luck, no matter how much you want to help improve the living conditions of the less fortunate. I mean, what are they going to do if one day they try to be successful?

Things that are true almost every day #AMD

FAQ.
#MicroStrategy's default risk on convertible notes and share sales is low:

• Zero-interest notes with long maturity (2029)
• Flexible conversion options (cash/stock/both)
• Large-scale stock offering potential
• Substantial #Bitcoin holdings at much lower average acquisition cost

Why would you ruin my dinner like this...

Germany has subsidized Poland's success for decades, now far-right propagandists use Poland's success and Germany's woes as a thesis for their economic views 🤦🏻‍♂️

Trump and Musk are following the banana republic post-truth playbook word by word, but faster than ever has done before, and no one is doing anything about it.
If this plays out, the future ia gloom, not only for Americans, who might even profit in the short term, but for the entire planet.

Trump and Musk have not even started their term and they have already announced their plan to slash budgets and reduce headcounts of every org that could oppose them. They already threatened legislators thqt might vote against them.

Mexico's '4th tranaformation' started by discrediting judges, autonomous electoral organizatins and every org designed to keep the govt in check. Then, with popular support, they started dismantling them or absorbing them into the federal government.

Post-truth mrchanisms are so effective that it is not even necessary to perform a major fraud in elections. They just need to dismantle institutons little by little accussing them of any evil against the post-truther cruasade.

Trump is old but Musk is young and now probably the most powerful human being on earth without an army. Musk is setting himself to be the heir of the dynasty. He has the narrative, the amplifier and the post-truth mechanism to get it done.

Every post-truther tries to perpetuate in power or establish a dynasty. The Bolivarians in Venezuela with Chavez/Maduro, the Kirschners in Argentina, the revolutionaries in Cuba with Castro/Diaz, the 4th transformatoon in Mexico with AMLO/Sheinbaum and now MAGA with Trump/Musk.

#Musk is already fuelling the post-truth mechanism in the US. He lies without shame and owns the largest post-truth amplifier on earth. Even larger than the Kremlin propaganda machine.

Post-truth nations have an unbeatable self-defense mechanism. Since lying is the norm, whenever someone tries to attack its leaders, they can always question the veracity of the attackers claims with more lies, and since everyone lies all the time no one trust anyone claims anymore.

Post-truth nations might flourish for a while due to short term focused policies and irrational bullishness from their fanatic population, but they always crumble, without exceptuon. What happens when the post-truth nation is the largest economy in history?

Now that the post-truthers have won and they own some of the largest social media platforms and control the heads of the others, what's the plan to return to a sane world where lies are frowned upon?

Richest country in human history? ✅
Govt can create money? ✅
Country is global reserve currency? ✅

Elon: “We’re bankrupt!”

Now, let's see what we can do about fruit and vegetable prices... (HT @scottlincicome.bsky.social)

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