OLD AND BUSTED: “One Giant Leap for Mankind.”
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A young man who watched the Wright brothers take flight lived to watch American astronauts stroll on the moon. So why doesn’t the modern world look like our ancestors imagined it? Because America (and the West) spent subsequent generations engaged in a vast, consuming project of…
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 29, 2025
Tweet continues, “Because America (and the West) spent subsequent generations engaged in a vast, consuming project of self-loathing, self-denigration and the redistribution of our national resources to the states and peoples of the undeveloped world.”
As the line when in The Right Stuff, “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.” That money is being spent very differently today:
Kinda funny that the two stories dominating my X feed are:
1. Needing to take 5% of net worth from billionaires to prop up government spending
2. Fraudsters brazenly taking billions of dollars of taxpayer money with little being done to stop it
— Austen Allred (@Austen) December 29, 2025
I’m at a point where I just don’t think progressive technocracy can do anything,
Say you allocated $100 million to fix potholes.
I could see connected NGOs manufacturing potholes to fill and gobbling $80 million to no net benefit.
I could see the academic/ expert class…
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) December 28, 2025