Michael Snoyman

https://www.snoyman.com

Programmer, economist, author, speaker, weight lifter, Bitcoin enthusiast. Born in 🇺🇸, living in 🇮🇱

Libertas magnitudo est

Public Key

npub1uwa9uxsxuywgvqpkkhz7dzqp9032s3mq40qxdtp55zv4xhjrxdjsmxcjh4

NIP-05 Address

michael@snoyman.com

NIP-57 Address

snoyberg@coinos.io

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relay.nostr.band

relay.damus.io

relay.primal.net

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Last Notes

2025-03-26 04:38:19

Speaker dinners at a programming conference are a great way to find new libraries to have fun with. New ones in my list: cargo-mutants and monoio

2025-03-23 05:42:08

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You’re breathing out carbon dioxide. You’re destroying the world you monster! Stop breathing so much.

2025-03-21 14:08:59

The Cat in the Hat Comes Back may be the perfect book to read to a three and a half year old autistic son.

2025-03-19 20:10:05

What percentage of government leeches are simply necrotic humans?

2025-03-19 06:06:18

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More like "accurate assessment of modern society" if you ask me :)
I despise the university system and its gate-keeping. Make apprenticeships great again!

2025-03-18 05:36:03

Money printing is the forceful seizure of others' wealth without providing equivalent value in exchange.

2025-03-18 05:30:07

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According to Grok:
The term "Hoppean" refers to someone or something associated with the political and economic theories of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a German-American economist and philosopher of the Austrian School. A "Hoppean" is typically a person who aligns with Hoppe’s ideas, which blend anarcho-capitalism—a belief in a stateless society governed by free markets and private property—with culturally conservative views and a strong opposition to democracy. Hoppe’s work, notably his book Democracy: The God That Failed, emphasizes the superiority of private property rights and voluntary associations over state control, advocating for exclusionary "covenant communities" to protect like-minded groups, often based on family or cultural values. His ideas also include controversial stances, such as restricting immigration to preserve property rights and "physically removing" certain groups—like democrats or cultural outsiders—from these communities, which has made him a polarizing figure even within libertarian circles. Essentially, "Hoppean" describes a follower or concept rooted in this unique mix of radical libertarianism and social conservatism.

2025-03-13 04:38:34

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Glory and success to your House and its honorable allies!

2025-03-12 16:18:03

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/8d0d35b3fa54e1d01d55d6ea7ba489f7ecb83c57991da0ec9fbae1922686cf7c.jpg

2025-03-12 11:33:06

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I was being pretty tongue-in-cheek. Continuing that tongue-in-cheek commentary, let's pull in No True Scotsman and say that a Bitcoin bank isn't a real bank :)

2025-03-12 11:29:38

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To be fair, it's _almost_ tautological to say that someone who self-identifies as part of the "Bitcoin community" would be opposed to banks. But that's _almost_, not completely.

2025-03-11 05:31:33

GM Nostr! Paycheck just came in. Bought the dippity dip. #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/0a23e9d57bdf9e332f1bc38dae5edd61d3604dbfe5e6c5c8509f99e0acca3a99.jpg

2025-03-10 17:36:48

I wonder if any nation states are buying the dip #bitcoin

2025-03-09 09:17:15

New method for working out tech ideas:
1. Start a voice chat with Grok
2. Discuss everything I've been thinking
3. Tell Grok to ask me clarifying questions
4. Ask Grok's opinion (yes, opinion) on parts I'm uncertain of
5. Ask for thoughts on names, simplification for terminology
6. Get a full product description, short explainers for different audiences, and potential marketing spin
It's like having an active rubber duck plus note taker all in one.

2025-03-07 09:21:36

Has anyone read the book “Give and Take” by Adam Grant? I’m part way through, and it’s making an interesting argument in favor of, essentially, generosity. The implication so far is that, when done correctly, selfless giving creates value.
I like the idea overall, it’s a nice nod to altruism. However, it’s somewhat at odds with capitalist approaches of value-for-value. In particular, it seems to contradict things like the implicit roles of Atlantis in Atlas Shrugged.
I’m curious if others have had similar thoughts on the book, or frankly anything else. #economics #asknostr

2025-03-06 03:27:44

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/da78fd396c9377174576e0f5457fdfdfd8af793108f1a58019fae6cb2ec03d89.jpg

2025-03-06 03:19:04

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/3858d7f7db2a5a736a8b4de32b1f3786c4726af821156acdfff6364a74efbc7b.jpg

2025-03-05 12:58:56

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/f97c64cbdd8ae2cfae2850b21f878cf67900e2ac729d8ac9e9b03dba9e5c9097.png

2025-03-05 12:11:05

YES. Maybe Trump was just tricking the crypto bros to realize how much they hated the idea of OtherGuysCoin being artificially pumped. #note19gf…eyew

2025-03-04 11:24:59

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/ef3cfd0f972450536003dddfb870537c19e949f4ed5d67d1c1663955e5831850.jpg
For the record: shall not be infringed. Fuck the ATF. Fucking dog killers.

2025-03-04 10:50:18

I wonder how much of my belief in freedom, liberty, limited government, and hard money is genuine, versus being this comic. https://image.nostr.build/9d7492e7f8ab6197f87981dfe870649a16e904706f3ff6c4d04628a6fac95652.jpg

2025-03-02 15:52:14

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I’m not that confident. I think they’ll likely get in there and then perform like crap. Imagine in 20 years when they finally sell off the XRP after it crashes 90% while BTC climbed 1000%.

2025-02-28 13:17:43

I'd like to imagine that in the year 3200 children play GTA V as a history lesson about the 21st century.

2025-02-27 17:00:14

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Accurate*. Apparently I can’t type accurately.

2025-02-27 16:52:02

Subtle Rust humor #memes #memestr #coding https://image.nostr.build/695826ebc2d8a3ad4dbf6f5ffeea3ab581e17992428060829fab1fc6f72708cb.jpg

2025-02-27 08:37:11

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Yes, but was the trading inflows or outflows?
Not that it really matters, tick tock, next block :)

2025-02-27 07:07:30

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https://image.nostr.build/8a0c12b2f44771029fb4e3c369b076db757b0448d2fd75323d87c18b255893ba.jpg

2025-02-27 07:04:54

GM Nostr! Wishing everyone a wonderful day. Praying that all people striving for good are successful. And all those confused about what is good gain clarity and help improve the world.

2025-02-26 11:27:01

Job security #memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/4436216e932c2ee01853d8fb16015184c26f69a141417eeecf7bbfba366650d7.png

2025-02-26 11:15:11

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People keep saying the price of BTC crashed. I don't get it. Last week it was worth 100m sats, same thing this week.

2025-02-25 20:03:42

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I’m totally in favor of what he’s doing. I think he’d want a trolly name for it.

2025-02-25 18:59:42

Are we ready to start referring to the DOGE controversies as Elon Gate?

2025-02-25 18:03:58

Damn he called it #memes #memestr #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/72475037c054401bb9ecd540fd2d3479ef2e2a48578a5e262fcff80afd2cb037.jpg

2025-02-25 08:39:59

I'm _definitely_ the hodler in the video. #nevent1q…x5re

2025-02-25 06:58:40

GM Nostr!
Friendly reminder. If you’re a productive member of society and are working a real job, you’re working harder for less pay than you should, just so some US federal workers can complain about needing to send a single email.
(Yes, this applies to non Americans too, thanks to the dollar as the reserve currency, US money printing is an invisible tax on everyone.)

2025-02-25 05:14:01

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Is this a real thing that happened? Was it about the Bybit hack?

2025-02-20 14:22:11

I have a deserved reputation of being a pessimist. So I was a bit surprised to hear my 16 year old son ask me last night why I’m so optimistic.
I believe the good guys are destined to win. Bitcoin has reached escape velocity. The clock is ticking on the rein of evil supported through money printing. And if Bitcoin somehow fails, we’ll learn how it failed and build a better mouse trap.
That’s the long term play. Short term, for the first time in my life, I’m seeing a US administration trying to make the country—and the world—a better place. Will they succeed? I don’t know about total victory, but I expect the world to improve rapidly over the next four years.
So why not be optimistic? We have a solid long term plan, and a short term plan I’ll hopefully see come to fruition within my lifetime.
For the first time in my life, I expect my children to have a better life than I had.
It’s a good time to be optimistic. #bitcoin #freedom

2025-02-20 07:38:29

Really solid breakdown of what’s happening with Musk. I’m still of the opinion the #bitcoin is the only long term protection we have against government overreach, but I’ll take these short term wins while we get them. https://youtu.be/Tj4FDzM49MQ

2025-02-20 07:02:56

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as this reviewer loves his waffles https://youtu.be/osHJF3zBY0c

2025-02-17 11:06:54

Anyone have a recommendation for a paid Nostr relay? #asknostr

2025-02-16 20:59:20

You know I do stop torturing me https://image.nostr.build/fca994a52e85a925e01869d26767efcd48428952dd2a7479d57f7efbc25c8d51.jpg

2025-02-16 13:56:03

Is there any Nostr browser extension that adds in handling of nostr: style links, and/or will rewrite links for one client to open in your preferred client instead? #asknostr

2025-02-14 12:31:15

The Left Can’t Meme
https://image.nostr.build/4b6ea7de8625e0ea981889dec462f3c0e76b46f19ad90ba432808a3a9ebd4b54.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db488c2af543e5ca5fc9eb29f34d35b114a82716e0c3ae114090085cede0ee8c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cddfc553e22dd5e50db562bc1a7bdf26512f5c0b4826ffac589d90d1d079feeb.jpg

2025-02-14 10:17:48

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr
What big problem is sitting on your horizon?
https://image.nostr.build/02884782e8a9b7bfc370f042bc316aabccf6fb5b273357f945a9cbcb05308b65.jpg

2025-02-13 17:44:17

How long before we get to the point that 75% of the general US public believes the government is nothing but a grift machine? What are we at now, 35%?

2025-02-12 19:47:56

Holy shit I love ‘Murica! https://image.nostr.build/29cda44533e151a02dd1ea28635c27b6a7b132a3a403bc374234ff885aefd835.jpg

2025-02-12 11:19:33

I'm going to be speaking at Rustikon, a Rust conference in Warsaw, Poland, next month. Any Nostr Rustaceans going to be attending?
https://image.nostr.build/0017c28b825daddbde2ab5dda0a698e8bd55166564251a1eb59c1132a84ad413.jpg

2025-02-11 17:13:09

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/d45287c186839f2f7e20558b3f88750b45e0262ee854c7d9362afd751b310649.jpg

2025-02-11 14:52:07

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/92f5f525de99c04fb3c734598b817be7be2a4fb3cf37d3965784b601007dd993.jpg

2025-02-11 14:18:17

Cut off everyone’s slush fund. I don’t care which party you’re hailing from. https://image.nostr.build/eda8228944c9cabd8470092fa03f6390b2b3496ed0ea9e48648fe141ecc082ec.jpg

2025-02-11 10:41:21

New area of research: judicial review. Amazing how an entire power for the Supreme Court was invented out of nowhere... by the Supreme Court itself! Who gets to decide that it was allowed to do so? The Supreme Court, of course, they said so!
Oh, and we'll kinda add in all federal judges too, just for fun.
I reference Robert Barnes later in the thread, if you aren't familiar with him, he's a great source of information on a lot of topics, but especially legal analyses from an originalist/libertarian style position. (I think, I haven't heard him use either of those terms, but they _seem_ to fit.)
https://x.com/snoyberg/status/1889179130110812386

2025-02-11 09:34:12

GM Nostr! I'm an actuary. I feel targeted 🤣 #memes #memestr #math #statistics https://image.nostr.build/30da7b26605820acd6d87276c7c050a7d584192a8a4b7889d8a1374357fb8190.png

2025-02-10 16:24:06

Allowing someone’s offense to control your actions introduces a moral hazard #memes #memestr #economics https://image.nostr.build/c634a74707daa88bc1a04ab6ead0153556e014fe2d43d6f4506dc1ae2bbed0ef.jpg

2025-02-10 10:37:48

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I thought they were still doing good work with shutting down USAID. What did I miss? Why are they in the evil bucket now?

2025-02-09 12:21:36

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Thank you sir, really awesome to win a prize :)
More importantly, thank you for all the great memes, it brightens up each day!

2025-02-09 09:45:05

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What a perfect example of incentives--even hidden incentives--determining outcomes!

2025-02-07 13:07:40

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Cancel culture's aim wasn't solely to silence specific harmful expressions. Rather, it sought to create an atmosphere of fear, discouraging anyone from voicing unapproved opinions.

2025-02-07 05:43:34

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This thing? If so, what does it do when pressed? I thought it was just decorative. https://image.nostr.build/d3131d286941f1aead6613f8cb4ee5523b1055f86c71b81e21070809c347ba40.jpg

2025-02-06 14:26:38

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I have a lot of writing experience, but entirely on the technical writing side. This is my first foray into fiction.
If you start a workshop community, please let me know!

2025-02-06 07:06:17

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Will this empire have blackjack and hookers? If so, I'm in. Do you need anyone with no discernible skills besides being a decent programmer and writing shitty economics articles?
California's great. It's the people that are the problem. All the decent ones have run away or are trying to. The selection bias for "I have chosen that staying in California under the current leadership" selects heavily for people you wouldn't want in a country.

2025-02-06 06:59:34

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Please start with California. You can keep it, we're fine. In fact, I suggest we trade you California for Alberta.

2025-02-06 06:33:32

GM Nostr! Who else is loving watching the swamp get drained in real time? #memes #memestr

2025-02-06 06:14:10

Public sector unions should be illegal

2025-02-05 20:58:32

Lol #memes #memestr #davidhogg https://image.nostr.build/9f6efc6a1c8fa7faa3822c410f50b896c3745bcde8fccba4cdbd3a4004ab8502.jpg

2025-02-05 17:49:41

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Are we allowed books? I think either way my answer is yes.

2025-02-05 17:47:30

#naddr1qv…sq63

2025-02-05 08:28:41

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My point is that “obviously KYC will be required to interact with USD” is a big shift from just 20 years ago.

2025-02-05 07:35:36

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Sorry, I'm not actually sure I'm following your point. What do you mean by "makes it back into the pockets of the professional thieves?" I thought you meant the military-industrial complex, but maybe you meant something else.

2025-02-05 06:56:40

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Ok but you asked for it.
Ahem.
You don’t have enough BTC.

2025-02-05 06:55:17

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No, the corrupt in both parties profit off both, just look at who has a son on a Ukrainian board (Biden, Pelosi, and Romney at least IIRC).
It doesn’t really matter where the war takes place, they’ll get their kick backs.

2025-02-05 06:53:50

GM Nostr #memes #memestr
https://image.nostr.build/213c57ab214d5aca8bbe41e4a27ac06b85d4432a4980bff4578b6035282b2fa6.jpg

2025-02-04 19:58:05

Dude, the only reason any of us remember your name is so we can look up clips of you and laugh. @npub1ytx…qztz and I were talking about you and the only thing she could describe you as was “the fake news guy.” Though I’m personally a fan of Dollar Store George Clooney. https://image.nostr.build/016768f8bed293adc074dfcfe16be32fd547cd1c320b3d9e0e9fec02ce60e080.jpg

2025-02-04 14:48:02

When I was 15, I made some good friends in a new high school, and we decided to work on an open source video game. We never finished it, but I learned a bunch about coding, open source communications, and a lot more.
This school year, @npub1ytx…qztz and I transferred our 14 year old daughter to a new high school. She tested into the gifted program, met some new friends... and they recruited her to join their video game project. She learned 3D modeling in Blender, some coding, and how to communicate with a distributed dev team.
She just told me that the newest international competition at school is going to require 3D modeling skills in Blender, and she's excited.
Really wonderful seeing our kids thriving.

2025-02-04 09:02:24

FBI is in disarray? FBI agents are worried about keeping their jobs?
Good https://image.nostr.build/993e38bb8992f2ee7ddfbdf2231aa49fa411a77b3001c6f32312554282fc00b6.png

2025-02-04 08:32:03

I've seen a lot of people discussing Trump's tariffs, especially on X. One thing I was surprised by was the lack of general understanding of how taxes influence equilibrium price. I decided to write up an explanation of how this works, hopefully accessible to people with no economics background.
Topics covered: marginal benefit, marginal cost, equilibrium, inefficiencies caused by government, and a bit more.
#naddr1qv…ne62

2025-02-04 05:22:40

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So annoyed, by the time my paycheck arrived and the banks made the money available, price had already come back to $98k

2025-02-04 05:20:43

GM Nostr! https://image.nostr.build/38b321f2f8fe4ec0f0af419a80fc5193da2d5470e84ccd7247b9f2134a6535bd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d9c5ffb14160c5f93e5c01ed3b06e169a35217df62e9a9c48f390d996c2d23ed.jpg #memes #memestr

2025-02-02 10:18:27

It's not that I don't believe in feminism. I think feminism achieved its goals, which were on the whole the right goals: rights for women. I appreciate the fact that society made those strides.
In that view, seeing someone today say "I'm a feminist" is like hearing someone say "I'm pro-electricity." And if you say "I think we have electricity pretty well established as a good thing today" they say "what, have you never dreamt of going off for a weekend and living in a log cabin? See, you've got internalized Amish!"

2025-02-02 10:16:41

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Gracias. ¡Me gusta!

2025-02-02 10:01:44

Real economics (Austrian) examines the behavior of individuals. If we know that a group of people tend to always buy car tires and whipped cream together, we treat these as complimentary goods. If the price of tires goes us, all else being equal, the price of whipped cream goes down.
Psychology examines why an individual behaves in a certain way. It can explain why a group of people buy tires and whipped cream together. Economists don’t care why, because understanding the economy doesn’t require that level of individual introspection.
Fake Keynesian economics would observe an overall poetic increase in the transportation sector and drop in luxury food items and recommend going short on restaurants.
#economics #psychology

2025-01-31 13:46:27

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Oh no not at all. The scammers tried to extort him for more money, and meanwhile I was told to engage this guy on Telegram to get more information on how to reproduce the error. He tried to get me to buy his “vulnerability detection kit” or whatever, which I’m sure was a virus of some kind.
I forgot to mention that the entire company, including the customer’s non technical CFO, tried to convince him not to post the ransom in the first place.

2025-01-31 11:18:33

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It’s common practice to either have a bug bounty program as a product, or as a white hat hacker ask for reasonable compensation during disclosure. Unsurprisingly there’s also a lot of scamming. I had a customer who got conned and paid 3.5 ETH for fake vulnerability disclosures.

2025-01-31 07:18:01

“The US government is already mired in $5.8 trillion of debt”
Oh boy book, you will not be happy to find out what happened next.

2025-01-31 06:34:24

I was proud of this one, from a blitz game #chess #chesstr https://image.nostr.build/fa8258a30d3d35dd8160e823d6e82d09b62a1cbf3af5cc44a6f883636f6ba407.jpg

2025-01-31 06:12:42

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Thank you! And looks like you’re in my inner circle 😀 https://image.nostr.build/c863b8778915e53b29f83fdbf0bed8ada2468f3b0bf7ce933dc92c42cba6dcee.jpg

2025-01-31 06:03:51

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What site is that from?

2025-01-31 04:27:12

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/1b96ef7c2e1a868a69d9ee6d3e629858e10901983b06160d371e91fe87402e42.jpg

2025-01-30 17:59:51

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Immediately thereafter:
Me: how many more times do you want to watch the 1 through 10 video?
Three year old autistic twin son, translated slightly: at least once more father

2025-01-30 10:23:09

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No, that sounds like the start of a great joke

2025-01-30 05:02:15

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/bf122380958d513a71ec17d7c7588770d0934bc71d3b6fb91209a826d8796a55.jpg

2025-01-29 12:19:16

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Impressive! There’s a lot of competition for that title.

2025-01-29 11:22:19

Anyone have a recommendation for learning the basics of anarchocapitalism? #asknostr #economics #politics

2025-01-29 10:43:32

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I threw out my back yesterday. I saw this note and was curious if I could still do this with my back out. Knocked em out easily… and my back’s doing a bit better now. So thank you!

2025-01-29 06:16:27

https://video.nostr.build/9467d6051a1ce6fa6c37dcdc2248e75bf60a521f14a9f3c261309b05e341f754.mp4

2025-01-28 12:48:52

#memes #memestr https://image.nostr.build/25ca9e98cfd15cb639cc2d28e3d93a6f94e1e73a795deaf7d02f4e301262219f.jpg

2025-01-28 12:47:08

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I did _not_ buy this dip. I have no fiat left to sell.
But if it's still dipping when my next paycheck comes in: yes, I'll be buying the dip.

2025-01-28 05:34:58

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War has been used throughout history as a scary mechanism that requires centralization of power in the hands of the government. When war begins, propaganda efforts can terrify the populace into being willing to hand over control to their leaders, let them pass increasingly evil decrees, and seize control of industry (either confiscation of property or money printing).
The goal of the Powers That Be is to get the world into a state of perpetual Peace, where Peace is defined as "one world government is the only group that has an army." If anyone fights against that government, it's a "peacekeeping" operation. (You may notice that these terms have already come into practice.) This is the basic goal of the One World Government.
The question is: can we still get a blank check from the populace without actually having a war? That was the purpose of the Report from Iron Mountain. Per their analysis, they needed threats that were:
1. Economically wasteful
2. Represent a credible threat of great magnitude
3. Provide a logical excuse for compulsory service to the government
Importantly: these threats didn't need to be real. The populace just needed to accept them as real. Alien invasion was one proposal, and may explain why over the past many decades we always have "alien sightings" pop up: they're testing the waters. Another is environmental collapse, which is what _really_ caught my eye (global cooling, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming).
And it seems like "pandemic" is another one we can add to the list.

2025-01-27 07:28:59

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That’s a very interesting take on it. You made me even more curious.
For the record, I haven’t read it yet, under any title. I was serious that your post convinced me to look it up.

2025-01-27 07:19:09

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Ok I think you’ve convinced me, I’ll add it to the reading queue. Is it a different book to the typical protocols of the elders of zion, or just the classic work?

2025-01-27 06:21:27

I’ve been listening to the Crate from Jekyll Island audiobook. I just listened to the section on “replacements for war” to keep the population under control, and the environmental model is… scarily relevant to our modern world.