New dad x2. American Exceptionalist. Investor. Accidental FIRE. Futurist. Bad faith arguments = Blocked. All tweets Not Financial Advice.
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Videos like this over the past few days have really shined a light on the catastrophic problem Europe has created for itself.
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I've noticed higher end restaurants haven't inflated nearly as much as larger chain dine-in restaurants.
The best value for money now is premium restaurants.
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They don't want them.
This isn't new. There isn't a single Arab country that let's in any significant number of Palestinian refugees.
All they offer is lip service.
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Notice how when Obama says it people don't get pissed off? It's because messaging matters. Disagreement and nuance are still welcome in American discourse.
Now watch how Elon says things, like a gleeful bull in a china shop. That is not as well received.
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Holding a sign on Instagram as if it's activism is the most cringe thing ever.
What a clown.
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It was an actual plot line that the parents flew first class. That's why they weren't sitting near their kids on the plane.
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I appreciate your concern, but you have to admit Community Notes is an incredible accountability loop. Even Elon gets Noted.
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He's filling the vacuum of "experts" like you who are too afraid to propose an actually plausible negotiated settlement.
What's your idea?
(and if you say Russia just leaves, you're not a serious person)
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What are the odds that Mossad has operational capability in Qatar? 100%? That dude is marked.
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This couple will be married 50 years.
@RemindMe_OfThis in 50 years.
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I was writing a reply to you, then I checked your bio.
Of course you're a professor. Of course.
Stay in your bubble, it's warmer in there. The real world out here is a lot less simple.
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The TSLA world is waking up to a new reality. There are TSLA fans and Elon fans. There was once perfect overlap between these groups, but now they are diverging because, indisputably, Elon's behavior is hurting TSLA.
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The free speech absolutist in me is gearing up for a hot take.
Here goes...
Y'all are prudes. There, I said it.
It's not like he did it in his classroom, or, say, the Senate floor. It wasn't even under his real name.
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Android user here.
I realized long ago that I'd never switch to iPhone for the same reason I'll never try cocaine: the people who are into it are a little too into it. 😂
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So now you're in favor of impersonation? You're just playing opposite of whatever Elon does no matter how nonsensical
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Small talk is a necessary bridge to deeper talk.
If you can't make small talk, you instead can only communicate with people who are pre-vetted to want to talk about the same deeper issue with you.
Thus, you accidentally cultivate an echo chamber of only self-reinforcing views.
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What Elon is really saying here is "it's not my fault so I'm not going to change my behavior."
Investors need to understand that going forward. This isn't going to get better. This is the new normal.
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It's not that we're not paying attention, it's that we don't agree. No part of these antics is trying to persuade anyone, it just pisses people off.
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But it's not farmer's bank. Because farmers don't have access to collateral-free venture loans. See the difference? The bank itself was facilitating too much risk, and you all knew it because you were the direct beneficiary. Clutching pearls now is simply not credible
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The idea that peace is achievable, while at the same time acknowledging that one side (the weaker side, ironically) has no interest in peace, feels like a luxury belief that dooms the infinite cycle of violence to continue.
What is the outcome today that is most likely to create a durable peace 50 years from now?
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I first invested in TSLA because of Elon and his vision.
Today, I'm still invested in TSLA in spite of Elon. He's distracted, reckless and lost touch with the core mission of Tesla.
Trust is not something he can easily rebuild.
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If you think urban warfare isn't orders of magnitude worse, then you are in for a tragic reality check.
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@CommunityNotes @elonmusk your feedback loop is being gamed.
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Elon your time at Tesla needs to come to an end NOW.
Going back on your word to leave Twitter is another false statement meant to move the market. You are a risk to every TSLA investor.
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I don't mean this maliciously, but you should consider the possibility that you're part of the problem.
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It's not much of at secret at this point. He's wearing 4inch lifts. Basically walking around in high heels
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This describes me almost perfectly, with one caveat: I'm not pro Israel, I'm pro-civilization. It's that simple. If the Dems don't have the moral clarity to understand the evil of what happened on 10/7, then they don't deserve my vote.
For the record, I'm not Jewish or Israeli. Just an American who was disgusted on 10/7, and am further disgusted by the reaction from far too many Hamas apologists on the Left.
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I was VERY against him buying Twitter, for what I believe were valid reasons. But I will admit that Elon was right. I can already feel the honesty ratio is rising with politicians who tweet, for fear of Community Notes. Elon's plan is working.
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They're not fighting for independence. They're fighting to remove Jews from the Holy Land.
Engage with the opponent you have, not the opponent you wish you had.
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What storm? Elon's actual behavior? Why does everyone assume that this is temporary. Guys, this is it. This is the new normal.
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All the other car factories in the country were already open by then. Only tesla had to stay closed because it's the only car factory still operating in California. I'll say again, the only car factory left in the state, and this is how they were treated.
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I heard it's okay to judge entire groups so long as they're oppressor colonizers. Then it's okay.
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I did not expect to like this guy, based on the whole Kevin Smith wardrobe thing, but if he keeps talking like an adult (unlike a lot of Dems right now), then he can wear Hello Kitty pajamas in the Senate for all I care.
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"They can't fire 700 of us. It would be a scandal."
Ron Howard as narrator: They did fire all 700 of them. It wasn't a scandal.
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I unfollowed him pretty easily during the Nate Silver fight. It's not hard to see him as a bad faith debater. He's good at it, but his output is low value if you care about the actual truth.
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These people have no business being on a corporate board. They can't even decide on whether to resign. I'm genuinely embarrassed for them.
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Perhaps the better question is: why visit a city that has the expectation that it's your fault if you are killed when enjoying nightlife?
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You're not wrong, but I think you'd probably agree that huge demonstrations chanting "From the River to the Sea" is a super efficient way of turning the whole of Middle America off to your cause.
The "Free Palestine" crowd drastically misread America's moral compass, they continue to not understand that, so there will be populist political consequences to misplaying their hand.
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I have been savoring this win for two reasons. 1) I went to UM and I'm proud of them, and 2) being on Twitter this morning has proven what sad little petty dorks you salty fans are, and I'm so grateful that I have a life beyond fucking football.
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Is it just me or are the *new* Elon fanboys way more caustic than before?
It's making me use Twitter less and less
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@PeterZeihan 's books make this case exactly. A lot of Americans are kinda down on our place in the world right now, but if you look at it through that lens, our best days are right around the corner.
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To be clear, I'm not Jewish. But I consider the barbarism of 10/7 to be an attack on civilization as much as an attack on Israel. The world seems to be forgetting that civilization was earned, and can be lost.
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I was in a gun store two weeks ago. A 45ish year old man walked in while I was within earshot and said, "I don't know anything about guns, but I need one today. I need everything; classes, ammo, a holster, everything." The look in his eyes broke my heart.
I asked the employee, "has that been happening a lot?" He just looked at me, with the laser stare that only a Marine can give and said one word: "Nonstop".
After all, I was in the gun store too.
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Cities are in a 're-invent yourself or die' moment because of remote work.
They can no longer rely on corporations to force people to be there, even when cost of living and quality of life aren't up to par. They can either re-invent their downtown to make the benefits outweight the costs, or they'll die.
My downtown is doing fine FWIW.
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Gen Z about to realize they're the smallest generation in American history. They can scream all they want, it doesn't move the needle much.
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Immigration is a social good.
But it only works with a high degree of assimilation.
To deny that is a luxury belief.
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My wife is Icelandic. This video is not an exaggeration. It's kinda mind-blowing to experience in person.
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This is an underappreciated point. This is why I PREFER clubs, bars and events that have a cover charge.
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Either you've never actually paid taxes, or you're being intentionally dishonest. You don't calculate tax rates against total net worth, you calculate it against realized gains. Grow up, no one in America is going to voluntarily just send a check to the IRS because Bernie asks
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Because of a few tweets? This whole Elon incident really reveals how propagandized and fragile the UKR social media are
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He's forgetting that these aren't his normal true believers. Most probably hate him for blowing up their cushy gig. He thinks he's going to inspire them to work 90 hours a week but in reality they're just polishing their resume.
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Cars are more than just transport. They're about conveying an emotion.
And the main emotion I have about tesla now is anger and betrayal
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Going all in on TSLA was a monumental mistake. And the root of that mistake was trusting Elon to keep his priorities straight during the TWTR acquisition.
At some point I will be exiting this stock and won't be back until Elon is full time CEO of only one company. Fool me once
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U fr real? He's running the whole place like Monty Burns ran the powerplant when Homer led a strike. It's hemmoraging talent. There is NOTHING 4d chess about this tire fire.
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I don't understand how people who have lived their entire lives in Gaza and have elected representation are considered refugees.
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A lot of people feel abandoned by Elon, and with good reason. He needs to listen to the retail investor community. Anything is better than silence.
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There will be no Fed bailout. The political optics are just too awful.
Naming your bank Silicon Valley Bank is only slightly less cringe than naming it Bank of High Risk Coastal Elites.
Agree or disagree, I'm just talking about the political reality of how this will get framed
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1) America has lots of Indian food. Lots of every food, because America has a tremendous amount of entrepreneurial immigrants who open restaurants.
2) Curry doesn't even make the top 10 of delicious ethnic foods.
3) Brits should never trust their tastebuds. They're objectively wrong.
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The US electorate really took to heart the criticisms of the Iraq War, and that was the beginning of the end of Pax Americana.
Ironically, our ability to care less about the rest of the world is largely due to energy independence, driven by fracking, which was invented by Halliburton, while it's previous CEO Dick Cheney was the driving force to go into Iraq. Fate loves irony.
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I think I've seen enough. As a former Biden voter, I'm supporting @NikkiHaley for President.
She's the only one I have seen who understands national security.
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Can we please start taking @PeterZeihan more seriously? Honestly, he should be paying me for how often I say that, but that's mostly because his predictions go from laughably absurd to accurate in about 12 months.
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I have beta on two cars. They're both far worse than they were even two years ago. Basically useless at this point on the highway.
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Elon is swallowing the world and the world is starting to realize it.
This pic isn't Elon making moves. It's a pic of Macron trying to make a move with the most influential person alive.
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I have spent a week shitting all over Elon because of the Twitter fiasco, BUT...
If Berkshire takes a sizable stake in TSLA, I'm selling my dental fillings and piling it into the stock. I can't think of a more bullish signal.
They'll have the clout to clean up corp govern issue
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Which one puts a baby in an oven, in front of the mother whose husband was just killed?
You're justifying a level of cruelty that no decent person will ever rationalize.
And imagine how the world would react if the Israelis reacted in kind.
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I don't think most people understand how much the progressive response to the Israeli war is driving people into the arms of the GOP.
Basically anyone old enough to remember 9/11 has it seared into their soul that it's indefensible to solve politics with terrorism. So when we see a bunch of progressive activists trying to "contextualize" Hamas, and Biden absolutely fumbling to figure out how to talk out of both sides of his mouth, it makes him look weak, and crucially, it makes him look morally unmoored.
I'm sure if you're too young to remember 9/11 you're instinct is to disagree with this. That's kinda my point.
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One of his companies is dedicated to eradicating "the soul sucking scourge of traffic" (his words re: boring company).
He knows why people like remote work. He just doesn't benefit from it so he masquerades his opinion as virtue.
Remote work requires middle managers, which conflicts with Elon's tornado style of direct interaction with the individual contributors.
Said differently, Elon's preferred management style is not compatible with remote work. That seems less a criticism of remote work and more a commentary on Elon.
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Also, guess how much your life changes when you go from 200 billion net worth to 100 billion. Answer: none at all.
His incentives are not the same as the average shareholder.
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I find appalling that the Great Plains states think they're the Midwest. As far as I'm concerned, you're not the Midwest unless you're touching a Great Lake, plus Iowa.
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Their ships are tiny, run on bunker fuel which they don't produce, and 90% have a range of less than 1000 km. The number of ships is irrelevant. One carrier group is more powerful than the combined military of pretty much any country in the world.
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I can't believe it either. I don't think any TSLA investor had 'Elon goes full Kanye' built into their model.
Tbh I did see a possible outcome where Elon goes full Howard Hughes, but I thought it unlikely and that we still had time. Now I'm not so sure.
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In the history of the Israeli state, it has had war declared on it 8 times. It has never declared war on another. How many more data points do you need?
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Rule #1 of the NYT is preserve credibility by never admitting you are wrong.
Of course, this is why they have no credibility now.
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Should we change the FDIC insurance limits? Yes. Should we do it retroactively only after it impacts rich people? Fuck no.
You don't get to buy insurance the day after your house burns down. I'm sorry this is happening to you but that's just not how it works for anyone.
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*Banging my head against the table*
Please read @PeterZeihan already. None of this is surprising at all.
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