Payton Alexander
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Space lawyer by trade. Conservative takes on politics, policy, and America’s future. @corbinmadisonr🤵♂️🤵♂️ @Harvard_Law ‘21 @EdinburghUni ‘14. Views my own.
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The ultimate red state is Mars.
SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.View quoted post on X
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
There’s no such thing as late-stage capitalism, but there is such a thing as late-stage democracy. The form of government favored by the post-war liberals has found its natural conclusion in the debt and affordability crises of states whose people have chosen to vote themselves more money at the expense of everyone else. What we built after 1945 was a mistake. Correcting it is the great project of our time.
WIRED presenting a very, very left wing partisan historian in this sort of "expert answers questions" format as they would a physicist or someone talking about the realism of medieval armour in films.
Deliberate confusion about what is legitimate expertise is a massive problem.View quoted post on X
My main objection to Kelsey Piper is that because of her, there are thousands of people on this planet who would not be here otherwise.
One of my biggest life rules is to never, ever get in an argument with Kelsey Piper.View quoted post on X
Official statistics are fabricated. Immigrants commit vastly more crime than natives. Local governments routinely misclassify offenders as “white” or refuse to record official charges against non-citizens who commit crimes. The entire “immigrants don’t commit crime” narrative is propaganda pushed by Cato and compliant local governments who lie in official statistics.
the other trick -- which is less straightforward to apply -- is to look out for data that has been deliberately, systematically manipulated by partisan actors
the "immigrants commit less crime" factoid is a perfect exampleView quoted post on X
