Mike Solana
@micsolana
billionaire media tycoon and former mayor of san francisco. disinformation researcher. cmo @foundersfund. editor-in-chief @piratewires 🏴☠️
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VICE was the most important media company of the last half century. it shaped a generation, then died. here, in the deepest insider profile of the 2010s media giant yet, some insight into why: it turned its back on the counterculture it birthed. new ripper from pirate wires:
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How normal well-adjusted people become libertarians
fauci really said “dear diary, I closed the world today. it was scary but cool. they put me on the cover of in style magazine 😃”
what exactly is the problem here? we’ve been told for years that billionaires pay less tax than poor people. empowering poor people with political power that corresponds with what they’ve invested in the system seems fair to me.
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Shopify CEO says a “good system” would give 0 votes to those who pay no income tax, while increasing votes for higher taxpayers, capped at 5.
This story has been done to death
In your heart you know I'm right
We built the Bezos List.
.@JeffBezos — you asked, and we delivered.
Introducing the official Pirate Wires Bezos List: The Top 20 Founders Ranked by Wealth Created for Others. @huntryerson 👇
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canadians are really like another species
is disney really undervalued or is netflix really overvalued
should we try an open letter asking china to stop stealing from us?
everyone knows the side with the most open letter signatures is correct, and if you don't sign a popular open letter you are bad, as based tech intellectuals learned beyond doubt between the years 2016 and 2021
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Ocasio-Cortez to this day is a member of the DSA.
genuinely how the fuck is there not a snowcrash movie yet
what's wrong, you don't like the free market?*
*american startups competing against the second wealthiest nation state in human history, which is presently committed, from the top down, to destabilizing our industry and cornering the global intelligence market
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“damn, this boy can write” — me, to me, rereading my own latest essay for the third or fourth time
rooting for france now btw. we haven't talked enough about that sweet air show they sent us for 250. red white and blue, baby. frenemies forever. <3
“It’s just a billionaire tax”
Two months later can safely say this is not a slippery slope but rather a cliff into the pits of hell.
khanna's 'billionaire wealth tax,' which is not a tax but an asset seizure in which he tallies everything you own, then demands a percentage *on top* of what you're taxed — every single year — is already targeting anyone worth $50 million or more. this ends with your 401k.
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