Tony James
tonyjames.bsky.social
Tony James
@tonyjames.bsky.social
Minding my business
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This is my only public feed. I use Bluesky because it is simple and built for the public side of things. That does not mean I agree with the general vibe here. But the technology fits my needs.
The so called “global south” is not a real cohesive bloc, it’s a narrative pushed by anti-west states their own geopolitical leverage. The future won’t be a bipolar world, it’ll be decentralized and post-globalized, where sovereignty and nation-states matter more. There will be winners and losers.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Cristiano Ronaldo is basically the unofficial ambassador for Saudi Arabia’s future, and it’s working.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Oligarchy is not capitalism.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Individuality isn’t calm neutrality; it’s full expression.
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Don’t hide your emotions. Don’t censor yourself to fit into what others expect. Your emotions are part of what makes you, you!
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The measure of an idea is not the elegance of its theory, but the strength of its action.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Always the best choice regardless of what others do.
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Your country contributes nothing to frontier innovation and functions mainly as a labor arbitrage economy. It maintains heavy protectionism while extracting benefits from global markets. Its diaspora lobbies in foreign countries to secure policies that support internal interests back home.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
A nation’s success belongs to the people who built it. Those who demand access to it, who failed to build anything in their own homeland, are not the talented, they are parasites. They want the benefits of civilization without the responsibility of creating it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Work.
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The idea of “fair share” is a moral scam. People want to redistribute without producing. They claim moral high ground to justify forced redistribution, while hiding the fact that it’s just envy or political power seeking more money. No one owes society anything simply because they succeeded.
November 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Billionaires already pay most of the taxes and contribute more to society than anyone demanding more from them. If anything should be taxed, it should be unearned wealth (inheritance, nepotism, divorce settlements, trust fund elites), not value creators.
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
A student scoring 95% or more in a weak and corrupt school system is not the same as a 3.7 GPA from a top US prep school. This ends up lowering the bar for foreign admits while making domestic students compete under stricter, absolute standards.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Citizenship should be a privilege granted by a nation to people who belong to its community, culture, & values. It’s not a default legal status, a convenience of residency, or a transactional upgrade. Its purpose is to preserve national identity, social cohesion, & long term interests of the nation.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Google should make a github competitor.
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Poverty can and will be eliminated, but envy is eternal.
- Elon Musk
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
If your people are so talented and smart, why is your country a non functioning, corrupt, polluted, good for nothing, crime/scam ridden, disgusting, stinking cesspool?
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
First, make your country functioning and successful (you never will). Then lecture others. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
November 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Americans have accomplished incredible things without any third world help. If America does need foreign talent, there’s plenty of talent in countries like Austria, Japan, Estonia, Ukraine, Poland, Czech, Russia, and Switzerland.
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Capitalism is the only system where everyone gets a chance to chase what they want, not by seizing what exists, but by building what doesn’t.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Real science is based on testable claims, open criticism, and the possibility of being proven wrong. Anything that resists scrutiny, demands acceptance without evidence, or treats disagreement as heresy, it is not science, it is dogma.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When private citizens help those in need, we offer support, not dependency.
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Books smell good, but money smells better. Literally and figuratively.
November 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Social programs create dependency. It makes the society slower, less competitive, and less ambitious. When people rely on guaranteed support instead of their own drive, you don’t get innovation, you don’t get hustle, and you don’t get strong communities. You get stagnation.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Some people don’t understand the difference between nominal and per-capita. I feel pity for them.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM