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2025-03-20 01:55:42

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I mean, that's a fucking low bar, depending on how you define "better", but if you think Bitcoin is better than fiat, you'll think nostr is better than twitter.
facts

2025-01-31 05:55:13

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I was so stoked when Snowman used to post here; he could single-handedly make this "platform" if he used it exclusively.
Or not, whatever, he's an interesting guy and I wanna hear what he has to say, but not if he says it on a platform dedicated to authoritarian destruction of independent thinking and expression.

2025-01-02 02:47:42

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https://image.nostr.build/d4aa89e4abc005e3439e6babe5959e382cd80768634782c58a5c01a6db2618e1.jpg
if you know, you know

2024-12-22 06:44:20

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It would appear that he is... hexed... 🤣

2024-10-08 01:08:16

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Perfect time for a teachable moment: "Bitcoin babe, not crypto" 🫡

2024-10-04 03:02:07

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I think it's really important not to try and draw distinctions between "primitive" and modern people; regardless of era, the limitations on humanity are its political systems.
Check out "Fall of Civilizations" podcast on Youtube (The videos are all just stock footage edited together but overall the production is really well done). Every era and people have their own unique stories and circumstances which are fascinating in their own way, but in my mind the importance of studying them is drawing the parallels and finding the throughline that connects to us.
Or, as you alluded to, maybe the throughline is just the inevitability of the decline of all human societies and the necessity of humility in the face of that fact.

2024-10-02 01:45:53

If we really had the purge for a day, where there was carte blanche for violent retribution towards suspected criminals with credible allegations against them but whom the justice system hasn't been able to convict, right wing politicians would start falling like flies, on god.

2024-09-23 22:52:44

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This is the take I came to support, fuck the chuds. Saying that it's cringe ignores the context, not to mention the symbolic power and the fact that it's a tradition.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Easter_eggs_for_Hitler.jpg/1241px-Easter_eggs_for_Hitler.jpg

2024-09-16 13:17:07

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He's down a K-hole as far as his head's up his A-hole; a mobius dick if you will ♾️

2024-09-09 00:18:31

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Let them cook... 🍲 ⚡

2024-08-20 01:16:54

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https://image.nostr.build/c09a1c0e15de5253987693d3067beb8ccb12a89cfed95528a2fed9a01276dbfc.jpg

2024-08-13 12:25:10

The China news channel I watch on Youtube always refers to twitter as "the X platform", but I always hear "the ex-platform" which I think is much more fitting.
"...formerly known as tw..."
"Shut the fuck up, it's now an ex-platform"

2024-08-07 03:02:29

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Can't wait to be smokin' on utxo 🤣

2024-08-05 09:55:53

I shove all in at $4X,XXX ...?😕

2024-08-02 03:53:48

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There's no telos under a fiat regime, just loyalty to the cartel, and the loyal cantillionaires would never call out the emperor for not having any clothes, so they spend time circle-jerking over how gorgeous and brilliant and subtle he is.

2024-08-01 08:49:48

New Peggy, this one is for the kids
https://youtu.be/zA2v9AtvUHI

2024-08-01 01:58:17

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I feel this; the concept of "capitalist realism" deprives all social interactions and cultural productions of their verve, their soul. We see it and feel it every day, and it's most apparent of all in the rhetoric we see within the shifting political landscape for a sense of community and belonging. On the one hand it's a tale as old as time, humans seeking others who reflect their inner world to build something greater than themselves, but on the other its history reaching the cultural limitations of modern globalised anglo-saxon hedonism. Weber diagnosed the dysfunction more than a century ago when he pointed out that "sensualists without heart, and specialists without spirit" have created a "nullity which imagines itself the greatest society which has yet existed" but the fact of the matter is that no theoretical explication could counteract or undermine the unprecedented, and frankly unrepeatable, explosion in material prosperity that accompanied the rise of the post-world war American empire that we all live under. All discussion of theoretical paucity and spiritual emptiness has been relegated to the status of the ancillary discourse of the malcontent and the workshy, while everyone else sells their souls to keep up with the reified standard of middle-class prosperity, as precarious and as doomed as it is.
This is why Bitcoin has drawn me so much more in the past few years; we are butting up against the limits of the state to secure cheap commodities and extend the illusion of material prosperity past the upper echelons of the managerial class that was created to insulate the oligarchs whose rise coincided with the dismantling of much of the centralised state's power in the 70s and 80s. The central question as to why an institution which has abdicated so much of its powers to banks and corporations, while failing at its basic functions of representing the will of individuals, should still have control over the most essential of functions, namely the control of and issuance of money, should absolutely be paramount in our lives, and for Bitcoiners it is.
It's only just a start, it doesn't provide any answers, but to at least have the correct question in mind has to be a decent place to begin the journey of reinvigorating and revitalising the human spirit, which has been waylaid by capitalist realism for centuries. Money and markets are supposed to facilitate human economic activity and allow us some sense of control and purpose in our lives, but this only works in a system that allows for the free and direct expression of this activity, and with the way that functions of the current dominant economic regimes impede and distort this expression, the imperative to break the money cartel is clear.

2024-07-24 01:37:14

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With how fucked the yen has been, it's hard to imagine others not picking up on this. A while ago I read an interesting article about the "history of QE" which highlighted its origins in Japan in the 90s and described an ongoing shell game between the Japanese government, corporations, and forex markets ever since.
They've kept things afloat over there for 30 some-odd years, despite the cracks being evident for a long time, so the real question is how long the US can keep things together; do they have more leverage because they are the dominant global economy/currency or are things more fundamentally unstable because of the much more massive scale of corruption/deception/manipulation?

2024-07-23 00:24:29

My shit is so fucked...I cleared my browser cache because my Binance was all messed up, but then my nostrudel is completely busted.
Pain.

2024-07-23 00:19:36

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No verification is the point; the accelerationists/fascists want to completely poison the well of free speech on the internet and muddy the waters of human-generated discourse with machine-generated psyops.

2024-07-18 10:56:43

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At least in the dystopian future Trump-dom, where criminals are forced into trial by combat, we will get to see CSW get this legal noticed tattooed on his back on livestream before he's forced into a boxing ring with Francis Ngannou.

2024-07-16 11:23:50

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If you're cool, Nostr is literally a "Pick 1: Hammerhead Dingus or Shadowy Savant" simulator

2024-07-11 00:43:41

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He's grifting on all the most cyncial, dirty, cheap (fascist-theocracy adjacent) shit (bibles, flags, sneakers. NFTs) because he thinks the filthy stupid rubes are his best path to victory. He lumps Bitcoiners into this category. Caveat emptor.

2024-07-07 04:01:56

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fuck you parasite 🖕

2024-07-06 03:51:11

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😄
https://youtu.be/H6Q4s_ZdvAQ?si=gAPbwhyp4yVjshWL

2024-07-05 03:35:06

the bounce is going to be vicious, don't break yo neck anon

2024-07-01 23:57:07

I learned about this bible passage yesterday, and found it's pro-Bitcoin message very interesting, though it contains a stark warning about the fate of those who attempt to point out the contradictions of the monetary and financial systems.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A14-30&version=ESV
Really surprised some Bitcoiner bible thumpers haven't every pointed this out because it comments pretty overtly on the precarity of the revolutionary and ethical act which Bitcoin is, while showing the corrupting power of the Cantillion effect and centralised banking, which seemingly offers all the incentives.

2024-06-30 02:39:29

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They are infused with the magical power of the spirit world, obviously

2024-06-25 22:55:46

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PV brother, satoshi bless

2024-06-25 10:41:03

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God speed Mr. Assange, free at last!

2024-06-23 02:04:19

Nostriches and freedom lovers everywhere, if I could have your attention for a moment:
Please visit https://hklennonwall.com
and leave a message of hope, freedom, or trolling the CCP. It can include messages about Bitcoin or not, just get on there and share the strength of the power of freedom with the people of Hong Kong, who though now scattered to the four corners of the world and in some unfortunate cases locked in a cell in an authoritarian dystopian nightmare, have never given up their love of freedom.
The site has been carefully designed with security in mind to not dox or track visitors to avoid CCP retaliation, again further aligning with the nostr ethos of freedom tech and privacy.

2024-06-15 04:18:56

Holy shit, Epstein has made it to Nostr.
I'm here for it. This is one topic that unites the whole political spectrum: we all need to know what happened and who was involved, and to what extent.
Personally, I'm most interested in Chomsky and Trump, but there is so much to this story that I'm prepared to accept that there is so much more going on than what I currently suspect.
#nevent1q…nkk5

2024-06-15 01:41:03

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Love it. Everything flows; nothing remains.

2024-06-13 00:43:30

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I hope Trump loves Bitcoin more than he loves Tiffany.

2024-06-07 02:51:02

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Am I a total piece of shit because the part that most offended me about the article was that she twice equated the value of 14 BTC to $245K?
I wanted to shout at my screen "AT THE TIME!!!"

2024-06-04 14:08:03

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Eventually it will all be here, even the chuds and shitcoiners. Thankfully they won't be algorithmically boosted so I'll be none the wiser 😤

2024-05-31 00:10:01

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And fuck the propaganda that blinds us from imagining an alternative reality; anyone who wants power shouldn't have it.

2024-05-26 00:00:07

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Accelerationists' wet dream

2024-05-23 23:28:28

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Bitcoin can't fix fiat-brain, but I think it's a big part of a potential future fix

2024-05-22 02:27:22

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I was just thinking about this as I saw a post from @npub1r0r…q9ac who was talking about the ups and downs of a UX design giving people "trust scores": Social media should be a testing ground or a staging area for political action.
Social media (that is free and open and principled) has so much potential to develop or improve social interactions and has the advantage of being a wholly artificial system which can be completely disconnected from physical reality. That said, obviously there is overlap in infrastructure and of course the human elements of the system, which means that social media can have massive impact on "the real world" as well, which we have obviously already seen to a certain degree over the past 15 years or so.
The problem, from my view, is the negative feedback from history, politics, and economics in "the real world" into social media which has been simplified and weaponised against the revolutionary potential of the system, and this is why projects like nostr and bitcoin with a principled user base need to reject appropriation by all institutions, namely governments and corporations.
Zuck the cuck sold out first chance he got and is now just another tyrant vying to accumulate more undue wealth and power.

2024-05-21 00:26:36

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https://i.imgflip.com/8kql3c.jpg

2024-05-18 10:48:58

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https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-you-never-change-things-by-fighting-the-existing-reality-to-change-something-build-a-r-buckminster-fuller-34-73-81.jpg

2024-05-15 23:48:12

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That's not terrible at all. My rule is to never by them on sale and/or with a preponderance of dark spots because they will most likely be borderline inedible.

2024-05-15 23:39:33

https://image.nostr.build/28d7895a542ef45c03e545f811ad4d47824109dfa8617437d2ff5dd246c26531.jpg
Welcome CCP shills to nostr.
Zap me 200K sats to denounce this image. Thank you.

2024-05-15 22:39:08

Twitter: governed by the principles of cannibalistic capitalism and dead internet theory.
Nostr: governed by the principles of materialism, value for value, and live Bitcoin theory.
...he said to pretty much no one, except maybe a few people who agree and scroll past with maybe the slightest internal assent.
But hey, at least I'm not feeding bots. 🤖

2024-05-15 13:18:14

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someone says "we need more non-Bitcoin content", I hear "my brain is more Swiss cheese than RFK's"

2024-05-15 03:41:19

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I agree that it's a very interesting idea, and seemingly has a lot of potential, but if the discussion in this thread is anything to go by, has some pretty obvious limitations: politics.
There's no technological cure for politics because its limits are inherent, just like capitalism can't reform itself and stop destroying itself, humanity, and the natural world; the inherent logic of the system is the limitation of the system.
The question then is, can a community exist free from politics, hierarchical structures, and class warfare, and if so, then can it avoid becoming a cartel/political party, and eventually a state?
Game theory says no, and history is absolutely littered with negative evidence, but given the right incentives could it be possible? I would lean towards no, but you gotta have hope I guess.

2024-05-14 14:48:20

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Hi, we'll be your lab rats. Feel free to feed us some cheese, hint hint, wink wink...

2024-05-14 01:55:42

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You underestimate the obstinacy of the fiat brain

2024-05-14 01:17:11

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people are fucking stupid, but this isn't news.
Imagine "investing" in a brick and mortar whose "moat" is its presence in shopping malls and whose "product" is stepped on by a million middle men before they try and offload it on consumers who could get the same thing by clicking their mouse a few times in the comfort of their own homes.
Clown world will eat itself, but its corpse is bloated as fuck.

2024-05-14 00:43:14

https://youtu.be/rPt9hAC24MI
a vast techno-ponzi enabled by VC and social media hype, enabled by the logic of fiat, unravels before our eyes, and I'm fucking here for it!
Fiat is literally the distortion of reality through language and abstraction, but materialism abides.

2024-05-11 03:19:57

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I'm from Canada but it's basically the same thing; it's the legacy of imperialism and colonialism.
You can't create a new country, let alone a new world, based on domination, depredation, and deprivation. Sure, at one time there were massive ecological surpluses that trickled down to the colony, but as those surpluses have fallen, the logic of domination has become more apparent and the ideology that excused it far less effective.

2024-05-10 01:02:16

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Makes you want to bite your tongue next time a "pro-Bitcoin" politician starts an affinity scam, huh anon?
Vote for principles, not politicians, or don't vote at all and act out of principle, but just know that there's no messiah coming down the pipe to redeem the world and save us all, least likely of all from those seeking political power.

2024-05-05 01:59:07

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Alternately: don't be a pedophile culture vulture who buys and pays for all his relationships so that anyone can buy your dirt and air it publicly

2024-05-04 23:45:27

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plenty of ways to "poison" images to counter data harvesting; just need to do the same in text.
Anti-CCP trolls and Chinese dissidents have become masters of this and other censorship-avoidance techniques.
Not that we want to constantly have to live in fear like the long-suffering Chinese people, but you gotta do what you gotta do when you live under a repressive regime.

2024-05-04 01:24:14

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UFC PPV viewers still get a dose of this every card. I look forward to it because I have pirated almost every card I've watched since 2007, so like I guess it applies to me and I should be afraid or something, but it's just a fuckin' stupid joke, especially coming from a morally bankrupt company like the UFC.

2024-05-01 08:26:45

Whole lotta red today.
Drake dumped his bags to pay more ghostwriters to try and get back at Kendrick?
k.dot is BTC, drake is Solana, fuck the drama, but let's see some green mañana.

2024-05-01 03:57:25

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The oversimplification of language and thought is exactly what Orwell warned about, but his message was essentially appropriated by the propagandists on both sides of the cold war and thus grossly oversimplified.
We need to be able to hold two opposing ideas in mind in the face of political violence; principles over party.
The law will never allow this, so it must be disregarded. This is not a call to martyr oneself; give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and be your own lord.

2024-04-27 05:51:45

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Zapped, and followed. Excelsior.

2024-04-26 01:13:51

Is it possible to be radicalised by a community that you deem to not be radical enough?
There are probably plenty of examples of this, so I should try and stay humble and maintain perspective. The proto-fascist desire for pure orthodoxy has corrupted many a mind.
Most of what I see are people who miss the point, contrarians who blindly oppose ideas beyond their context, chuds and reactionaries and NPC bots.
But, like they say, if everyone you meet is an asshole, then you're the real asshole, so the question I should ask is "what am I really?" rather than judging others.
Hard to say.

2024-04-20 13:53:34

I just love the fact that degenerate gambling fiat-brained altcoiners are funding Bitcoin's security budget with this spam attack, proving both its long term viability and the pointlessness of altcoins.
I just don't get what the hell they get out of it.

2024-04-19 23:56:44

Watching the halving countdown on mempool.space and I can't help but wonder about those transactions of small amounts of corn, with the massive fees. Like, sending $70 worth but paying a fee of $6000 just doesn't make any sense in any way.
I always assume it's some ordinals/nft junk, or miners batching their own transactions or something like that; I'm kinda good not knowing honestly, but a part of me likes to believe that every transaction is a legitimate, organic p2p transfer, and this really breaks the illusion.
Anyways, history in the making, 4 blocks away, LFG!

2024-04-18 01:31:00

https://youtu.be/MtqAKkWuJSY
Shitting on "the algorithm" is all fine and good because of course, it is simply a mechanism for control, and can very much end up warping the minds of the unsuspecting.
However, I do love when it randomly, serendipitously, tunes you in to something you really needed to see.
This guy's channel was one of those times; lots of overlap with the Bitcoiner's ethos, breaking dependency on the state and its hierarchical systems of abstraction, and building a connection with the land.

2024-04-17 14:31:04

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Felt it here in Korea. Just a little rumble, but when you're sitting way up in a little concrete box on stilts it definitely makes you aware of how fragile it all is.

2024-04-13 12:29:17

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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take at Wayne Gretzky, if you want to kill him
- me

2024-04-13 03:33:46

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keep us posted. Dreaming of a life not dominated by the state and its economy occupies my mind a lot these days.
Of course the dreams centre around Bitcoin and its revolutionary potential, but also on the sheer amount of work required to make these dreams reality. All kinds of work, but most especially the kind of intellectual work required to be an engaged citizen and not the protelarianised consumer that most of us have been conditioned to be.
And work is hard, especially when you feel your chances of success are low, based on how you have been conditioned to view the world and your place in it. Much easier to just go with the flow and enjoy the (rapidly diminishing) quality of life that historical accumulations of capital have afforded us.
I hope to begin my own citadel-building journey in 2025; it's both the terrifying and thrilling prospect of a new world.

2024-04-06 04:05:35

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#nostr : "the jank is the message"

2024-04-05 01:12:53

https://youtu.be/xDyPSKLy5E4
X promotes asymmetrical class warfare, but thankfully not for much longer, as king Cantillionaire destroys capital nearly as fast as he conjured it.

2024-04-04 10:46:29

Cheers Zapmaster! I will happily be your zap-peon and zap it forward.

2024-04-03 11:56:08

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Fuck Twitter. Nothing associated with Musk will ever benefit humanity, and therefore Bitcoin cannot be associated with Twitter.
Musk will be remembered as some kind of techno-Madoff for a moment, but Bitcoin has only just begun to transform the world for the better.

2024-04-03 05:42:57

https://youtu.be/0yonORB4s_s
Young'ns doin' murder for clout then post it on they page,
the CIA gave us crack, Instagram, and AIDS.
#nevent1q…hm3p

2024-04-02 00:26:20

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I'm so fucking addicted to reddit and youtube, but otherwise am off social media.
Aspire to be BONO one day but am just not at that place now. That's why Bitcoin is so important though: to give one the freedom to break dependencies and do the right thing.
A lot of people know that the world is fucked and hate the position that they find themselves trapped in, but they literally can't imagine a way out. At least we can see the light.

2024-03-30 08:45:13

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Stealth QE in full effect already. NYCB gonna fail (considered the most conservative bank because most of its balance sheet is filled up with NYC real estate, ie. considered prime assets that will only appreciate) after they were given a golden handshake deal to take over Signature Bank's assets when the Fed let them fail in 2023.
Fuckers gonna keeping fuckin' but I'm going with plan B. God knows what else is comin' down the pipe from our trickle-down shit lords.

2024-03-30 05:09:03

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I'm not tired of winning yet sir.

2024-03-29 04:34:33

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I think that most obvious reason why schools don't encourage any kind of awareness of monopolies or the inherent underlying class logic in monetary policy, is that they are essentially factories of proletarianisation, which serve the state's interests by protecting their monopoly on both monetary policy and violence, and their bastard offspring, taxation.
Demonstrating the illegitimacy of the state's monetary policies undermines the legitimacy of the state, which is itself just a loose network of institutions monopolised by the ruling classes to protect their ability to accumulate capital, both material and cultural. Public schools, and universities for that matter, through the effect of class pressures during a period where all strata of society have access to education, have been instrumental in keeping the lower classes in their places by propagating the myth of "capitalist realism". This is done by reframing the purpose of education and shifting the focus of its goals, away from producing civic-minded and politically active citizens, and toward producing an army of drones willing to slot themselves into whatever sector of the economy they deem to be most viable. The historical and socioeconomic forces that have influenced education in the past hundred years or so are inextricably tied to class dynamics, and so are obviously complex, wide-reaching, and the particulars may vary from region to region, but the globalised nature of capital means that its monopolisation, produced through proletarianisation, is a universal, if often unacknowledged, phenomenon.
As an aside, though very much related, I've been thinking a lot these days about an old Philip K. Dick short story (can't recall the name of it) about a guy who worked at a kind of interplanetary customs' house, whose job it was to inspect alien products for their suitability for the consumers of earth. One day they receive an alien-made children's board game that he and his co-workers become increasingly fixated on, but which seemingly amounts to nothing more than a simple game of resource accumulation and domination, you know, typical prosocial goals. The end of the story reveals however, in a major twist which unveiled the insidious nature of the game, that he hadn't read the rules of the game and that they had been playing it incorrectly the whole time: the real rules encouraged players to divest themselves of all their resources and thereby undermine the power of earth's establishment in order to make them more vulnerable to an invasion. I didn't really think too much about it when I read it some 20 years or so ago, aside from the basic allusions it made to cold war era politics and the fact that it was really creepy, but today I can't help but think how prescient and accurate it was in describing the perpetual class war and its co-production and appropriation by the state for its own war machine.
Yes we had "The Landlord's Game" become commodified and distributed en masse as "Monopoly", which entirely subverted and re-purposed the intent of the original, but the real conspiracy was infinitely more vast than the effect that a single board game would have on children's minds. The entire premise of education has become a vehicle by which successive generations are trained against defending their own interests, and are instead inculcated with the necessity of defending the system designed only to exploit them. But the most insidious and frightening part is that you can't just attribute the conspiracy to some foreign or alien forces that seek the downfall of some specific nation, or even humanity writ large, because it's simply the unfolding of the same class war that has informed civilization since such a concept has existed: a group of people works together to accumulate resources, uses the accumulated material surpluses to become dominant over increasingly large territories while simultaneously dividing itself into dominant and subaltern classes, and eventually develops systems of abstractions which become cultural and national identify, which is itself simply another means of defending the domination of territory and the lower classes.
Anyways, I hope I contributed to discussion in some way here. Whenever I take the time to thoughtfully type out a take on a serious topic that has been rattling around in my own brain for a while and it comes out like a wall of text, I feel like it comes across as ranting and raving, but some subjects just need a lot of words to do them justice! Thanks for reading.

2024-03-24 06:51:52

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everyone will "get" Bitcoin at the time that they deserve; it's a wonderful system

2024-03-21 00:24:43

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Every single self-custodied sat is a fuck you to the cantillionaires and their rent-seeking cartels around the world.
There's still so much work that needs to be done, but it's great to have an actionable path forward.

2024-03-20 00:44:24

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TA be like T&A fr

2024-03-17 04:24:45

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Yeah you're right, there are trade-offs between being a part of the ingroup and the outgroup and historically of course people have always chosen, when they had the choice, being a part of the ingroup, for the security. Unfortunately it's this same choice that has led to so much power being accumulated in the state through all its various institutions and their interconnected nature, over time.
We're at a unique moment in time where technology and education allow us to make a different choice, while mitigating the downsides, but it's still a very treacherous path, no doubt.

2024-03-17 03:54:10

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You're touching on a lot of stuff that I've been giving a lot of thought to recently, as I think a lot of Bitcoiners should be doing. The most important part, that you left open at the end of your note there which was a nice touch, is to overcome one's conditioning to think of one's self as a citizen of a nation. Everyone around the world is force-fed propaganda from birth about the greatness of "their" nation, and just sort of sleepwalk through their whole lives without questioning it in the slightest. Even as someone with a Canadian passport, I can admit to having drunk the koolaid in my impressionable youth. That said, I also have to admit that it's a lot easier to break free of said conditioning when you grow up in a colony without any strong culture, as opposed to a power centre at the heart of a dominant empire. I also haven't lived there in 10+ years which is another factor that works against the average person; hard to break free when you're surrounded and saturated with a perspective that presents itself as both de facto reality and destiny.
Once you get past that though, there are still many major problems that need to be sorted out, for example I don't agree that anything meaningfully revolutionary can be achieved online except what were doing here, which is just the very basic of preambles of theory. But in any case, you have to start somewhere, and like I said, getting in the headspace of being free of dependence from the concept of "the state" or "the nation" is a very important first step.

2024-03-15 12:30:20

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Just for that I hope Satan sends us to $85k on Monday

2024-03-15 03:02:51

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never forget, eyes on the prize, this isn't a fucking game
salute! (I'm a dumbass and don't know how to use emojis on a desktop)

2024-03-15 02:40:39

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Took the purple pill; next up, wash it down with the orange one and your journey toward discovery of their revolutionary potential begins.

2024-03-15 02:26:29

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Serious? Tuvok is a P.I.M.P.
Also, curious what the little diamond "proof of work" icon is on this post. I assume it's related to my first statement.

2024-03-15 02:10:04

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Trudeau's political career is DOA for this election cycle, even if current polling is slightly off. He has completely failed to advance any policy and has overseen Canada's increasingly fast descent into the lowest levels of irrelevancy (whereas we had been floating at the upper levels for most of the 20th century). This is his last gasp at leaving a legislative legacy, though in his own entitlement-addled mind, he probably believes he will survive the next election and can muddle through another few decades of trading against Canada to gain political capital for himself. In reality he has no mandate, he has no legacy, but in the current global political climate it's clear that the projection of delusions and distortion of facts can yield powerful results, so he has nothing to lose by indulging in his own fantasies.
That said, when he does get voted out, he will be replaced by a somehow even more corrupt and incompetent administration who within a decade or so will be replaced once again by the Liberal party, possibly with Trudeau still at the helm.

2024-03-02 04:01:13

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Seriously. When did people become so completely cucked by content middlemen that there are now middlemen capitalising on managing subscriptions to content middlemen?
Bitcoin and Bittorrent and mucho co-sympatico.

2024-03-01 10:32:52

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I don't know about intelligent, but I could easily say that you are at the very least perceptive and you know your audience well posting a note like this, shaka brah

2024-02-27 12:31:23

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Preach sister! lol

2024-02-26 08:55:27

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ITT: confusion between "orange man bad" and "orange coin good"

2024-02-24 05:18:19

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A scam that breeds scams and a scammer mentality, and projects that mentality onto everyone who comes into contact with it.
Absolutely fucking diabolical.

2024-02-24 05:16:07

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the zoomers and terminally online et al that conflate "crypto bros" with Bitcoiners are annoying, which I believe is what is happening here (?), but everyone will come to their own understanding of the difference eventually.

2024-02-24 04:22:53

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Fake British? Consistently using the King's English and a quotation from The Times in the genesis block says real British to me, but it could just be an attempt to throw people off his scent.

2024-02-17 11:16:29

Bad day for news of political dissidents being murdered by dictators through their repressive state apparatus, good day to remember that this is not a fucking game, Bitcoin is freedom, and not a stupid scheme to raise your fiat balance.
Of course we all pray that shit never goes completely off the rails, but the only guaranteed way to secure your future is by taking that shit into your own hands by putting in the work.
Don't trust anyone, test and verify, value for value.
RIP to all martyrs, but you don't have to be one if you choose not to be.

2024-02-11 03:35:29

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holy shit dude you read my mind, living up to your handle!
my very first thought while watching this was "damn, poppin' some caps and walking around Amsterdam with this filter on would be so fuckin' epic!"

2024-02-10 03:21:40

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unlikely that Cramer has seen his peen in the 21st century

2024-02-09 04:34:30

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There's no basis for a discussion in good faith with anyone who calls Tucker Carlson a journalist and characterises him as "constructive"
Good day sir.

2024-02-09 03:57:43

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They don't call him Tuck the cuck for nothing; the very premise of the interview is a kind of cultural and intellectual cuckoldry.

2024-02-01 14:57:38

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I'm curious what an ODELL workday looks like...
Not like super granular detail, but just like the broad strokes, for inspiration hehe

2024-02-01 14:53:06

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Damn bud, sucks to hear. Only way out is to push on through to the other side; you can do it.

2024-01-12 02:01:36

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Answer: logo should be ostrich with a tie (synergy of silly and serious)
Real question: does he wear it at the top or bottom of his neck?
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