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Bob
@Build_Like_Bob
fuck the system, just build
Austin, TX
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    Bob
    @Build_Like_Bob
    Feb 17, 2025
    if you’re new here, i’m bob. i work in private credit, but my real goal is to break out—build something of my own, or buy a business and scale it. my father passed away when i was 11, just as his own career was taking off. that loss shaped me. it made me relentless, made me see
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    Bob
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    Feb 17, 2025
    Replying to @realDonaldTrump
    reciprocity is a beautiful idea, but in its purest form, it assumes that all nations start from the same point on the game board. they don’t. the world isn’t a chess match where each player has an identical set of pieces. it’s poker—where some players sit down with stacks of
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    Bob
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    Mar 29, 2025
    Replying to @burrytracker
    the next recession won’t look like a recession at all (at least on paper) because ai will keep the numbers alive while the people struggle. gdp will keep growing, corporate earnings will stay strong, and productivity metrics will hit record highs. but it won’t be because humans
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    Bob
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    Feb 18, 2025
    Replying to @alottacoins and @realDonaldTrump
    thanks! great question I’m glad you asked. the rebuilding efforts in europe and japan post-WWII set the stage for the global trade system we have today. the u.s. helped them grow as industrial powers, creating allies and establishing a global economy where america’s interests
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    Bob
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    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @TrumpDailyPosts
    trump knew exactly what he was doing. and the reason it rattled so many people (on both sides of the aisle) wasn’t because it was irrational, but because it was too rational. it cut through the polite fictions of global trade and went straight to the leverage. yes, there are
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    Bob
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    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @chamath
    the market didn’t crash. it sobered up. what people are calling a collapse is just leverage deflating and fantasy repricing. you had two years of artificial liquidity, rate denial, and soft-landing fairy tales baked into every asset. now the fairy dust has settled and the
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    Bob
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    Feb 17, 2025
    Replying to @elonmusk
    Cyprus 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾 η πατρίδα μου for context everyone - in 2004, cyprus stood at a crossroads. a small island, divided but proud, asked one simple question: should we reunite under a plan written by outsiders? then came $60 million from USAID. not for roads, not for schools—for
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    Bob
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    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @RayDalio
    the world has never been flat. it has only felt that way during periods of american dominance so complete that imbalance was the design, not the error. what we’re watching unfold post-“liberation day” isn’t chaos. it’s reversion. the gravitational pull of economic physics
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    Bob
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    Feb 16, 2025
    Replying to @signulll
    100% - the illusion of human exceptionalism also unravels when you realize how much of our identity—our desires, aspirations, and even our sense of self—is not self-generated but patterned, predicted, and shaped by consumerism. What we call “personal taste” is often just an
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    Bob
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    Apr 4, 2025
    Replying to @TrumpDailyPosts
    stagflation isn’t new. it’s just forgotten. in the 1970s, oil shocks didn’t just raise prices…they rewired the economy. wages chased prices, growth flatlined, and monetary policy became a game of choosing which pain to feel. the fed raised rates and unemployment soared.
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    Bob
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    Feb 20, 2025
    Replying to @exec_sum
    nepotism robs people of the struggle that makes life meaningful. as someone who has fought for everything i have, and not nearly as much as my ancestors did, i know the happiness that comes from grinding things out, from building something one shitty job at a time. the weight of
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    Bob
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    Feb 17, 2025
    Replying to @CoachStahlka and @realDonaldTrump
    you’re right to point out that the real solution lies in reclaiming control of our manufacturing base and securing critical inputs. it’s not just about tariffs; it’s about rebuilding the capacity to produce the essentials that keep an economy running. we can’t keep relying on
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    Bob
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    Feb 17, 2025
    the world is designed to keep you consuming—scrolling, buying, working just enough to spend it all again. a loop so tight you don’t even feel it. but the second you sell something, make something, create value instead of extracting it—your brain rewires. you see the game. and
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    Bob
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    Feb 24, 2025
    Replying to @signulll
    respectfully, disagree. a fully ai-run corporation is not the final form of capitalism, it is a theoretical endpoint that ignores the friction of reality. corporations are not just decision engines; they are power structures, risk allocators, and political entities. ai is an
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