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Michael Scaglione
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Host & Producer of Two Doomed Men Podcast. Rehabilitated Bernie-Bro, Libertarian/Anarcho-Capitalist, Bronx kid. “The most zealous are the converted”
Connecticut, USA
Joined April 2010
@Breaking911 We don’t need anything from them, especially at the cost of “security”. This is Russia’s backyard, leave them alone.
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@joshcarlosjosh Enjoy your page, but you have an inverted sense of the real world. The power of federal government is the ring, Washington is Mordor. Any attempt to limit it’s influence is an objective good for the world.
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@joshcarlosjosh The Shire wasn’t funding regime change and pro Shire-Empire narratives throughout middle earth. They were minding their business.
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@DissidentMedia @jeremykauffman did the work on this a while back, would be the least surprising news about USAID money
Fine, I'll do an effortpost on Reason magazine. Here are the facts: 1) Anecdotally, on both social media posts and in their own comment threads, Reason is regularly attacked and ratioed by their own readers. 2) Reason journalists support Democrats disproportionately. In 2020, Reason tallied their journalists votes. The results were: Jorgensen: 10 Biden: 6 Trump: 1 Libertarians can always come up with a reason that one candidate is the "lesser evil", but this is way off from how libertarians voted nationwide. 3) Reason magazine has 51,000 paying subscribers who pay $15-$20/year. At $15 for 11 copies of a print magazine, it's unclear that this is even a break-even price for distribution, let alone labor. Their 2022 tax filings report $1,043,588 in program revenues, which matches this. 4) Reason's tax filings report $13,980,606 in contributions and grants for 2022. Reason is receiving 14 times as much in donations as it is in revenue. Libertarians understand that incentives matter. Reason is incentivized to follow donors, not readers, because that's where the money comes from. 5) Just a few of the donors contribute outsize amounts. Across 20 years of donations, just 4 donors have contributed 62% of all revenues. DonorsTrust is #4 and excluding them wouldn't change the overall picture. The simplest combination of these facts is that Reason exists not to serve a libertarian audience, but for a donor class to push their preferred stories onto libertarians. This donor class is substantially more culturally progressive, egalitarian, globalist, and neoliberal than the libertarian base. I'm not making a claim that Reason journalists themselves are told to write certain stories, or that Reason journalists are liars. All that needs to happen is the donors pick the right editor, who then goes out and hires journalists with biases preferred by donors. tl;dr - Reason is out-of-touch with libertarians because it's paid to be that way.
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@GeorgeColli He was one of the point men during the maidan coup in Ukraine, this has always been his bread & butter.
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JD has been an excellent choice to complement Donald Trump
For the sake of both of our kids? Grow up. Racist trolls on the internet, while offensive, don't threaten my kids. You know what does? A culture that denies grace to people who make mistakes. A culture that encourages congressmen to act like whiny children.
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@JDoza1 @krystalball She’s aiming to replace the Democrat Establishment’s failed corporate press model
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Tweet of the year 😂😂😂😂
After a long day of work, Kanye West goes to his Kanye Nest to take his Kanye Rest. He wakes up feeling his Kanye Best. Then he’ll get Kanye Dressed on his Kanye Vest to go on a Kanye Quest. He goes to church and becomes Kanye Blessed, then to a hotel room to be a Kanye Guest. Then to school to take his Kanye Test. He forgot to brush his teeth. Did he run out of Kanye Crest? His neighbor stole it, what a Kanye Pest.
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