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2025-05-04 15:01:40

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Was never really a star wars fan, but I've enjoyed the franchise. What's the commie take? Wasn't hans a smuggler and gambler taking any job for a price?

2025-05-03 14:08:42

Methylene blue. Who's on it?

2025-05-02 20:10:21

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Awesome. Glad you got that figured out.

2025-05-02 01:42:57

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Why? Mine has hummed along for years.

2025-04-30 23:38:46

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All.

2025-04-22 12:08:48

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Cameras. Objective proof of what happened, who said what, and with what tone.
The instant replay is a game changer.

2025-04-18 21:55:34

#NeverForget
https://image.nostr.build/b5ee5402422b817e57d054dab6263b751bac36f4c65ee407d752e9760b892733.jpg

2025-04-15 12:47:46

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The situation is complex and the truth is, he's on a revenge tour. He's not throwing the ring back intp the fire, he's using it to its fullest.
I don't think we'll see anything back down, we'll likely see it escalate. Empire's will do anything to stay on top and corruption will do anything to stay in power.
The question is... Who's who?

2025-04-14 20:21:11

#Nostr peeps are wild. We can't take you people anywhere... Never change.

2025-04-14 20:18:18

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That's the wildest story that just disappeared... The footage was unreal.

2025-04-14 15:21:38

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Maybe. But considering how far we've come in 5 years... In another 5, employers will just expect everyone to have the ability to code.
NASA doesn't hire computers anymore.

2025-04-13 04:09:57

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Agreed its not a gotcha. But you are fundamentally misunderstanding whats happening here. The act of forgiveness is not transactional. You putting away grudges and hurt feelings is that act. It doesn't require anyone presenting themselves to you. Your forgiveness is not for them. Its for you.
I would refer you to the beatitudes, luke 6, christ on the cross (Father forgive them...), the story of the adulteress, (go forth and sin no more).
We are shown that Christ is willing to forgive without our explicit repentence, but more importantly, we are told repeatedly what we are to do and that we will be judged by how we judge others.
When we turn the other cheek, it is not a act of defiance. Its an act of forgiveness... They do not ask for this. We forgive so that we remain blameless before our Heavenly Father.
Your forgiveness has no bearing on anyone except yourself. Its not a token that is for you to give to another.
Again, when some one is asking for your forgiveness, what they are really asking for is permission to forgive themselves from their own persecution and self torment.

2025-04-13 03:33:49

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Does man forgive sin?

2025-04-13 02:27:02

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Negative. We are commanded to forgive all.
When someone asks for your forgiveness, what they are usually asking for is permission to forgive themselves.

2025-04-09 22:47:58

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IDK what that means, but I like it.

2025-04-09 12:05:50

GM. Smells like competition out there.
https://image.nostr.build/81e78cf9d44a5bf9bb2e15d15c8938835872ea2f904deab1e97b3a8ca32d69b4.jpg

2025-04-07 17:35:56

https://image.nostr.build/a92265cbee546d999ab29a6123f4e48f2be7f54a81ead4d517ac0958142144cd.gif
#nevent1q…lwc3

2025-04-05 22:50:21

I've been trying to stay lightning only... But the gods have spoken.
#nevent1q…0vuk

2025-04-04 16:30:14

How about that...
https://image.nostr.build/5abcccec145c89c68906ca6c16668075c0585ac3badf48bdae93c53ff7c321d9.jpg

2025-04-03 13:53:00

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Umm... The only one attacking is you, friend. I asked why are you hating on what Trump "might" do... And then you called me pathetic.
This is feeling more like TDS.

2025-04-03 13:20:18

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Honestly, thought the same for you.

2025-04-03 12:53:14

I'm amazed that all the people crying about goods and services becoming more expensive.
This is easy guys, when going out to eat becomes cost prohibitive you start to eat at home.
This is the same with any other good. We're about to start building at home. We're just in the crying phase.

2025-04-03 12:44:41

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Is this twitter?

2025-04-03 12:05:15

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Lol. Yemen, isnt a war. It's barely even a conflict and he definitely did not start that. But thanks for playing.

2025-04-02 23:37:04

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He's the only president that hasn't started a new war. 🤷‍♂️
Why is every Trump hating post about something he "might" do?
Why not criticize the results of what he's done already?

2025-04-02 23:22:02

Tariffs are here. Smartest thing they did was to put it side by side for all of the free traders out there. We never had free trade.
Even still... The United States is being very generous, but we're getting close to an even playing field.
Game on bitches...
https://image.nostr.build/7bb92f5519f51892d5393f47d6da7a194a06fce7067a77b6d3ae411894b7a7ef.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5b4639bfb4e5f8f08660c619e9b1738d7f009594df32843189fff3609c40e6d7.jpg

2025-03-22 19:22:24

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I haven't had many issues as long as I'm connected to a large enough node. Zeus is on the right track in expanding their business as an LSP, and providing everyone with self sovereignty.
The Zeus wallet still feels foreign to most, but man are they doing all the right things. Such a great project.

2025-03-22 18:32:29

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It's a weird mix. Developers are paving the way for Bitcoin and lightning. They aren't being paid in most cases, so I let it slide. Especially with the acknowledgement that most can't run their own setups. Right now, setup isn't for your average person.
Most cant manage their own spending let alone their own nodes. 🤷‍♂️

2025-03-22 17:45:21

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It's not that obvious. People on nostr love custodial solutions. It lets them skim off the top.

2025-03-22 14:22:48

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I'm confident that with enough self-reflection, you'll get it.

2025-03-14 12:53:31

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Honestly never thought of it that way. Could it be that Bitcoin began with monetary utility as the framework that it was engineered for and not merely a commodity with an underlying utility that became a currency?
What do you mean by recursive relationships?

2025-03-13 22:54:40

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It's ridiculous to argue that the US shouldn't place tarrifs from nations that tarrif the USA.
The currency flows to the lowest point in labor cost. In a circular economy, the wages rise with the rate of inflation. We can't do that with Mexico, India or China.
Regardless of industry, an American manufacture can't compete with the arbitrage in wages especially when they're tariffed from participating in other markets. It makes our goods uncompetitive in foreign markets.
That's not a free market theory. That's market manipulation.

2025-03-13 17:55:16

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We've been exporting labor and production for 30 years. We stopped seeing real wage growth in 2001 while the cost of the everything has gone up by at least double.
Americans are working longer hours and have less discretionary income than ever. Household debt is ballooning and defaults are beginning to peak again.
I can appreciate the ideal of free markets, but we don't live in one and the results are obvious. The middle class is eroding.

2025-03-10 17:55:02

"Buy the dip", they said....

2025-02-14 00:02:22

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In an open market without rails, sure. But that's not the legislative environment we're heading towards. Keep in mind that failure was on the table for banks also... Until we started bailouts.
I don't actually see any other way, though. We need custodians and this path is more secure than lnbits, for sure.
The way I understand this, for mints to be interoperable, they also need to be lighting nodes, correct?

2025-02-13 23:53:14

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Easiest to learn.

2025-02-13 23:52:22

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I can appreciate the speed, privacy and efficiency of ecash, but wouldn't we just be rebuilding the central banking model of fractional reserve banking?
Isn't that the inevitable next step that comes with mints?

2025-02-13 23:49:49

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Same. For the end user, if I have to trust someone with my money, why would I trust you?
The biggest objection is, "how do I convert it back to cash?"

2025-02-13 23:04:24

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What I don't understand is how the ecash is secured by actual sats.
Is it possible for mint to issue more ecash than it has on hand?
Admittedly, I have not played with ecash at all.

2025-02-13 22:30:06

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We're in the middle of 5th generation warfare. You're witnessing a civil war unfolding for the levers of power.
Our president is model is after the Roman model of Caesar. The point of the executive branch was meant for wartime decision making. In peace, the congress is meant to rule. They have conveniently played stupid for decades and abnegated their power to the executive. Partially to avoid responsibility because it's easier to murmor, but mainly to hold onto their own power while they create pet projects.
The bureaucracy has grown to leviathan proportions and interestingly enough, has all happened under the executive branch which the executive has full authority over. Similar to a non-profit, monies appropriated for a specific cause can't be spent elsewhere, but it can absolutely be given back if a program under the chief executive is deemed to be obsolete.
We're not witnessing anything new or dictatorial. You're witnessing the chief executive acting in his full constitutional authority.
The backlash you are seeing is directly from the captured appendages and puppets. This is 5th generation warfare. Everything you see and hear is suspect.
The hint to cut through the BS... No one is debating the findings. Only that they shouldn't be found.

2025-01-27 13:23:18

@nprofile…d43k what's going on with this Greenland talk? I feel like I missed something.

2025-01-26 02:58:58

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Worth a read.
https://x.com/JasonPLowery/status/1883347102761435148

2025-01-25 17:26:04

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Pave the way. That's my sentiment 💯.

2025-01-23 19:39:52

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I get it. I was referring to your masochistic desire to try new coding things 😅
Very relatable.

2025-01-23 16:38:20

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Is there another way?

2025-01-22 01:09:11

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Still laughing?

2025-01-21 02:58:41

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The market feels good about it. 🤷‍♂️ https://image.nostr.build/52f704f4520dfca2fc659ec2bbdb25eb381a5eeebc6038a9687c513ee0e39a54.jpg

2025-01-17 22:45:01

Curious how the big dogs are securing their seed phrase. Does anyone use something like stamp seed?
#bitcoin #asknostr

2025-01-16 01:57:07

@nprofile…rm9g, did you see Ian Carroll drop an npub yet? Love that guy.

2025-01-14 00:08:24

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I guess that's fair. 🤷‍♂️
But then you get stuck paying outrageous fees. That's how the cookie crumbles.

2025-01-13 23:59:49

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Lol. Is that a moral stance you're taking against working with your hands? What is it?

2025-01-13 22:22:30

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dude... invest in some tools! Brakes are a cake walk. Couple sockets, a brake kit for the calipers, and a jack. You'll never spend more than $200 again.

2025-01-11 22:45:50

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You're a man of many talents... Did you build yours or pick it up somewhere?

2025-01-11 22:42:47

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Where's the best place to pick one up an not be scammed.?

2025-01-09 17:40:03

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Let's pretend for a moment... That you don't know me. Speak for yourself.

2025-01-09 14:39:22

The older I get, the more I think that the Amish have it right. They are among the happiest and healthiest in every survey, year after year.
You can call it a commune, but I grow more and more interested in teaming up with other Christian families and purchasing a large swath of land and raising my family away from all the noise.
Let kids be kids again. Why not normalize community again and get away from the moral relativism that pollutes the mind.
Be healthy, be creative, be productive. Be helpful. Care for your neighbor, not out of obligation, but because at the end of the day, all we really have is each other. Ask anyone that has survived a natural disaster or war zone.
We're communal creatures. Wealth, Status and titles become utterly meaningless when it hits the fan.
To survive, we need each other.
#nevent1q…xf5z

2025-01-09 14:25:33

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Yes you can. It's called culture. A normalized set of values that produces a homogenous community.
Things outside the cultural norms are called taboos. This is the way it's worked for millenia.
Post-modernism and it's war on Christ produced this filth.

2025-01-08 17:25:35

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Meaning it's dictated by regulatory environment. Not moral principle.

2025-01-08 12:56:29

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You're discussing this as a frog in the pot looking for proof that the water is getting hotter.
You don't see it or feel it because you're saturated it in and are perhaps looking for soviet style economic model, which would be incorrect. Communism is a worldview. Not just an economic model. It is a materialistic and atheist worldview with its own dogmas. It is all encompassing but can be discerned by those that place the state over the individual.
Before the communist (or leftists, of you prefer) are able to achieve their utopian model, they have to first destroy what is. They do so through division. Marx initially sought class warfare between the working class and the bourgeoise. That worked on some areas.
Since the early 1920's, the communists in the United States recognized that race would be the best social driver for change and revolution.
The entire post-modern movement is Marxist at its core. We have sitting senators with portraits of Mao in thier homes. Soviet style art work and messaging are so common in the Democrat campaigns that we don't even recognize it anymore. It started with Obama, but is most pronounced with AOC. We have extremely vocal democratic socialist movement in the Democrat party. In fact, any time you hear "Our democracy", you can be sure, that they are talking about the central planners vision of the global order. It's not just the US. It's globally coordinated and connected.

2025-01-08 11:59:01

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Is this a serious question or bait for a Twitter like "discussion" of straw men and intellectual dishonesty?

2025-01-08 04:50:48

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It may be true that bankers are behind both sides, but the right wing wasn't floating the idea of taking children away from parents because they don't want to transition them.
Let's take a step back and gain some perspective here. No one is saying the fight is over, but let's be real. The left jumped the shark.
They went full degenerate commie and did so world wide.

2025-01-07 21:56:54

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Similar to power. When wielded by the hands of a benevolent king, it's wonderful. We seldom get that.
History has taught us, it's better that the state never has that power.
So did Lord of the Rings. 😉

2025-01-07 20:17:23

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Been there. I had to move on. Lost a little corn with that one too. Only like $20... But how many more doubles do we have to go.
Bummer either way.

2025-01-06 03:02:00

Been giving it some thought... Computer science is wizardry.
We type commands with runes on a quiji board which are then inscribed onto magic plates.
We're inscribing our will directly onto magic plates and when enough energy is provided, through a series of electrical impulses and lights, we give birth to an interactive illusion that all can see and that interact with our world.
We can even take control of inanimate objects and force our will upon them.
The whole world of cyber security is really just wizards casting spells at each other.

2024-12-27 22:16:12

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Was she recently pardoned by Biden? There seems to be a trend.

2024-12-27 22:15:04

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Indeed... 😎

2024-12-27 22:14:10

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🫡

2024-12-27 22:09:40

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The thing is, he doesn't have a choice. Without Saudi Arabia requiring a payment for oil in dollars, the world doesn't need them. Trump is a brilliant strategist and I do believe he is devout patriot.
The only weapon central bankers have against Bitcoin is a money printer. But our excessive printing is and choice to use the dollar as a weapon is the reason nations are leaving the dollar behind. Suadi is already an official member of BRICS and BRICS is already greater than the G7.
Petrodollar is over. Trump knows this. People still use the dollar because the United States is stable... Bitcoin strenghtens that position.
Trump can't be against the central bankers in public... But there's a reason he has an Andrew Jackson bust in his office. I think he goes for it.. time will tell.

2024-12-27 15:09:42

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Fair. it's not a loaded question. I was just curious because of everyone's low expectations of trump. During his tenure, for every 1 new piece of legislation, he negated 4.
In energy and manufacturing, things were booming.
Things were chaotic during his administration, but it was mainly the allergic reaction to Trump that so many had. His policies were actually really good for business and national security. The dollar is our #1 export and weapon. No chance he's doing anything to weaken that, but a strategic reserve doesn't weaken the dollar in my opinion. It strengthens it. I think we see it happen.

2024-12-27 14:55:17

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Curious how closely you follow politics? Like, do you follow politics as closely as you follow tech?

2024-12-22 18:43:57

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Why are you doing this, again? What's the risk benefit here?

2024-12-21 17:08:23

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legendary post.

2024-12-10 02:33:49

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I didn't like it either, but they just stumbled upon all that gold. I'd imagine they took a loan to build up the mining operation. They don't want to sell their corn. From that perspective, it makes sense.
Would still be better if they bought sats, though.

2024-12-06 13:03:22

Anybody else bored with 98k already?

2024-11-29 14:53:47

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Principles don't save you in business. Whether we agree with it or not, we live in a debt based system. Leveraging debt is what billionaires do. It's what Michael saylor is doing currently.
And what exactly is the alternative to printing money when you have half of the world effectively unemployed due to govern action?
They were putting business owners in jail for opening their doors. What do you do as president?

2024-11-29 14:38:54

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Nobody is saying that. I'm saying that blaming it on trump is disingenuous.
To believe that, you'd have to ignore all that was happening globally. China was welding doors shut to keep people in their apartments...
Democrats were talking about taking people's children away and putting people into Internment camps. The world went completely hysterical and yes, we printed money... But let's not pretend that trump is ignorant to how money works and was out there running up the nations credit cards. That simply not the case.

2024-11-29 00:16:27

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interesting take. I remember every commie organization across the planet calling to close down the economy and shutter doors.
Some states stayed open... they were red states.
When leftist in the governments and media call for an economic shutdown and you suddenly have millions of effectively unemployed people with zero income and little saving, what else could have been done?
Funny you would blame trump for that.

2024-11-11 13:04:10

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👀😆 I guess I'm not the only one. Much easier than telling the country that yeah... It was fraud.
https://image.nostr.build/bb92cbf9ab475e0ef9089d2c82d8bb642c49dcfb8798a34afe9bf60d0c221fb5.jpg

2024-11-10 14:10:13

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Let's just blame it on the boosters. Kill two birds...

2024-11-07 16:58:19

YES!!
#nevent1q…rns8

2024-11-06 16:15:44

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Haha. Oh... Most definitely. It's why I started out with "I love to see the meltdowns...".
https://image.nostr.build/beb01b88bbec05b0e67b1f5ac4fda1bcb0d0d4add1bcf2c940804f43b3545d8e.jpg

2024-11-06 16:11:50

I love to see the meltdowns, but there are just as many on the other side that are crying tears of happiness.
It's weird that the government has this much power over our lives.
This, in itself, should illustrate how much liberty we've lost. Reflect and act accordingly.

2024-11-06 00:53:09

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So you have Justin Trudeau and it's legit? 😨

2024-11-02 20:03:18

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Coquito only. Eggnog is the pabst blue ribbon of holiday drinks.

2024-10-26 14:19:05

Sometimes you see someone at the gym and think... "Friends don't let friends skip leg day" 👀

2024-10-23 23:00:00

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Speaking of vaccines...
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/10/23/netherlands-court-orders-bill-gates-and-albert-bourla-to-stand-trial-over-covid-vaccines-causing-injuries-and-death/

2024-10-22 05:58:51

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Then you're far dumber than anyone thought. I must be speaking to a white dude for Harris.

2024-10-22 05:36:08

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You are objectively an idiot. A pseudo-intellectial that lacks any real understanding of the current state of affairs. it's not entirely your fault. You lack context and reference point of sanity.
I remember 2000-2008 very well. I was an adult then too. Judging by your luke-warm stance and need to be morally equivalent, I'd say you are in your early 20's and unmarried. You have a child's worldview. Still looking to figure it out with a "cool apathy".
Here's a hint junior. Between 2000-2008, we didn't celebrate mental illness as a virtue. No one identified as a cat and we recognized that healthy debate was the foundation of democracy, not a threat to it. You clearly don't understand what packing the supreme court means. The rest of your post isn't worth commenting on.

2024-10-22 00:05:17

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this post comes from someone who lacks perspective. They're jaded by what they see, but lack the experience to see how far outside the norm we are.
If age was on your side and you understood world events, you would understand that this isn't politics as usual. Communism has one foot in the door.

2024-10-21 23:25:28

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You should check out "Pillars of Prosperity".
https://a.co/d/aYFg5P5

2024-10-21 22:10:43

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Lead the way. We're the OG's apparently. I wasn't a delegate but I was definitely front row and as vocal for Ron Paul as these crazy kids are for Bitcoin.
It's a new generation and they're accomplishing great things, but man... Standing on the shoulders of intellectual giants. That man stood on stage and spoke about the dangers of the military industrial complex, the CIA and the propaganda machine that we call news WAYYYY before it was cool.
We owe him a lot.

2024-10-21 21:17:57

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Grow up and give it a rest with your moral equivalency. We've already had a taste of trump. We had lower crime, lower taxes,ore jobs and no new wars. It wasnt rednecks burning down cities.
There is, in fact, a side to blame for the current state of things... And they've been in power for 12 of the last 16 years.

2024-10-21 18:17:48

Remember the good ol days when people would hate each other for a couple of months. Then we'd have the election and everything would go back to normal?
I'm old enough to remember that the Dems broke that. Now it's all day hate and people claim to be cats.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but that hateful atmosphere ain't maga...
You guys have burned down cities, come out in droves as pedos, satanists and sexual deviants. You've attempted 2 assassinations while claiming MAGA are dangerous, racists and haters.
You've threatened to pack the supreme court, end the electoral college, and have censored speech and tried to ban voter ID. You've imported more immigrants in the last 3 years than probably the last 10 combined while denying it to the bitter end. You lied about Jan 6 and continue to talk about threats to democracy.
Friend. You are the threat to any and all democratic processes.
Productive and mentally sane people are ready to move on.
#Trump2024

2024-10-13 15:10:48

Found this guy on the windshield recently. Thought it was a great shot.
https://image.nostr.build/07b96c7ea365cd69b5c2970f8018484eb21b7f381be5eaa823b8b60dda34ed41.jpg

2024-10-07 14:24:59

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Truth. It's a whole other ballgame once girls hit their teens.
I can say that they come back around. Super impressed with my college student.

2024-09-25 14:10:14

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Except for the koalas. We can keep those.

2024-09-25 14:05:23

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Remember her school for young women in Africa? Her connection to John of God? Weinstein?
How does one become the richest woman in the world from daytime talk shows?

2024-09-25 13:40:21

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The more corrupt you are, the more you can be trusted with secrets, the further you can go.
Now do Oprah.

2024-09-24 17:27:01

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😂 I know, I know. My point is only that lenders will create the markets they need to expand their own wealth. They're just looking for angles to exploit. It's that simple.

2024-09-24 17:05:30

The face a president makes when a nation goes full retard https://image.nostr.build/91d7ab75a913895214f16709921a704c1abb46bd4c041ee6ddd92217d795b753.jpg .