🇭🇺 Yesterday marked 70 years since Hungary tried to vote its way out of communism. The Soviets answered with tanks, and 200,000 Hungarians walked to Austria.

Communism's best argument has always weighed 36 tons.

New Argentina's $350k Citizenship

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Europe's plan to beat Starlink: 400 pages of regulations and zero satellites. Now they need Elon to keep Ukraine online.

Bureaucrats can't launch anything except fines.

Running a small company, I get asked for a discount every week. Nobody asks the bank for a discount on its fees, or the state for a discount on its taxes.

Only the guy who actually built something gets haggled. Price is the last thing in my business I still get to set.

Venezuela sat on more oil than Saudi Arabia, went socialist, and ran out of toilet paper. Takes real genius to go broke sitting on a gold mine.

North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Belarus all fear the same thing. Not missiles, not sanctions. A $5 VPN 🔓

42% of US undergrads now prefer socialism, and half think Cuba and the USSR had a better model. They paid $200K to learn that.

Owe the IRS nothing and forget one form, and the fine is $25,000. Nothing on the market punishes an honest mistake that hard. Only a government can bill you for doing nothing wrong.

Sent $1,000 abroad. Three banks took a bite and it vanished for three days.

When a stranger does that, it's theft. When a bank does it, it's "in transit."

Kid in a $40 Che Guevara shirt says capitalism failed him. Shirt shipped next day with free returns. Che would've shot him for the markup alone.

Post a job and you get dozens of replies, two people who can do the work, and one who answers on time.

The scarce thing in a small company isn't capital. It's people who finish what they start.