▪️This is so delusional. The idea that poor countries are actually rich, it’s just the people who are poor(!) is nonsense. The GDP per capita for Mexico is less than $14,000. For Brazil it’s $10k and Philippines just $4,150. That’s poor!
▪️The idea that real wealth comes from natural resources like timber and mining is also nonsense. The market cap of Nvidia is more than the entire GDP of Brazil, so is Apple and Amazon. Tesla’s is nearly as large as Mexico’s GDP and triple the Philippines.
▪️Real wealth comes from innovation and industrialization. South Korea and Hong Kong went from wretchedly poor to fairly wealthy in just a few decades not because they suddenly found natural resources, but because of capitalism. It’s also why much of Europe is now stagnant and actually quite poor compared to the US, they have little innovation.
▪️The reality is that the poorest countries are generally the least capitalist, and least economically free. They are not friendly to private business and often nationalize many industries. Which is why they are undeveloped, despite often having much potential. There was never some era in the past, prior to Europeans or capitalism, where they were rich.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
