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I'm listening to Nostr history happening live in the Bitcoin Lobby Nest.
Maybe.
Hopefully.
Okay, I like listening to nests when I get the chance.
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Something I learned in my early days of political activism was to "meet people where they are," meaning: whatever it is you wish to discuss with them, do so on common ground.
Over the last decade and a half or so, it seems to me that that is a concept that has gone out of favor.
I think that is a mistake. A deep, terrible mistake.
I needn't agree with everything anyone says to find common ground. And, if I don't work to find the common ground, the chances of reaching that person goes way down. And what's the point of the conversation if all I'm doing is earning bonus points from those who already agree with me? I've not furthered my cause. I've not made a positive impact. I've only shown any audience that feeling like I've "won" is more important to me than furthering my reach and my cause.
Seems a bit silly to me to not meet people where they are.
But, hey, that's just me.
The whole album stands up after all this time.
I don't play the role of maxi on Facebook. Knowing my audience is something I strongly believe in. I do, however, try to give my "friends" things to think about. This is my most recent post. Now, as always, I wait for the arguements. But, I don't post these things for the people who will argue and never listen. I post them for the people who read them and maybe think about what I've written.
The post:
If you don't understand what is happening to the USD and how that's going to impact you, I suggest that you do some serious reading. It's not a secret. It's not being hidden. The US government is denying that it's a problem while madly scrambling to do anything to offset the mounting and inevitable problems. Not the least of these actions is attacking fiat on and off ramps to Bitcoin and crypto. Biden and Warren are desperate to stop the average person from having any chance of protecting what little wealth they possess. They are desperate to protect their own class along with their friends like Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, and Jamie Dimon. And they'll gleefully make it difficult if not impossible for the average person to feed their families over the coming years so they can protect their banking partners.
But, no matter what they try, the dollar is failing as the world reserve currency. It will continue to fail no matter how much the destroy the wealth of the average person.
And, for what it's worth, there at plenty of Republicans who are gleefully onboard with Biden and Warren. It's important to remember that one of the primary issues that both parties tend to believe in is the necessity of protecting the US banking cartel even at the expense of the people. (And out of fairness, there are politicians in both sides of the aisle that do advocate for some financial freedom.)
But, the long and short of this post comes down to this:
If you don't own some gold, silver, or bitcoin (and, for this purpose, it's bitcoin, not "crypto" that you'll need), you're going to find yourself in a very terrible situation sooner than you think.
Do what you want. Listen to me if you want. But, if you give two shits about your future, at least look into the imminent fall of the dollar as the world reserve currency and what that means to the US public.
Every time I listen to Janet Yellen speak, I honestly wonder what the thought process was behind appoiting her to the position of US Treasury Secretary.
Even if, for whatever reason, someone thinks she's in the right path or whatever, she always comes across as ill-prepared, confused, and in a perpetual state of being startled.
Of course, I think that pretty much all of her ideas are awful and she's generally either lying or wrong, so that could certainly play into my bias. All the same, I just get the sense that she instills confidence in basically no one.
If governments really cared what the people think and want we probably wouldn't have gotten to the situation where bitcoin was needed.
I could be wrong, but the statement sounds good.
When the politic is differentiated between two sides, the politicians and movements on one given side tend to disregard the views of anyone they perceive to be on the "other side." A progressive won't listen to anyone who they don't consider progressive. A conservative won't listen to anyone they don't consider conservative. At least, this holds in general.
So, if a bitcoiner is progressive, it's that bitcoiner that has the best chance of reaching other progressives. If a bitcoiner is conservative, it's that bitcoiner has the best chance of reaching other conservatives.
If a bitcoiner is libertarian all of the other libertarians, whether they agree or disagree will start a fight. I'm a libertarian. Libertarians are weird even if or philosophy makes sense.
Anyway, I agree, #[1], it's heartening to see left or progressive bitcoiners jumping in to persuade their own in the language that pay off the political spectrum uses. Without them, moving the Overton Window toward bitcoin acceptance would be far more difficult.
Remind them that just because they like a power being wielded by someone they like or think they agree with doesn't mean that exact same power can't and won't be wielded by someone they hate or are afraid of.
The number of progressive friends that called me for firearms advice in 2020 was astounding. Some of these people had never touched a gun, let alone fired one, when they called me.
In my experience, while it's not convincing to everyone, when people realize that the power they enjoy seeing used against those they perceive to be their opponents can be used against them, they tend to get more open to alternatives.
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I think it's about time for me to start looking at setting up my own bitcoin node. You all have convinced me whether you meant to or not.
But, there's a catch: I'm not overly tech savvy. I'm fine as long as I have detailed instructions, however, in most tech projects I attempt there tend to be, often in the middle of the instructions, some assumed knowledge that I don't possess. I don't mind the digging and learning, but about half of the time, I find contradictory information and get stuck.
So, if I could get some direction toward resources before I start, that would be wonderful.
Unless I'm told otherwise, I'm hoping to use a raspberry pi 4 4GB for the node.
Thanks, friends.
I haven't listened to this album in years. I will fix this sometime in the next couple of days. Thanks for reminding me it exists.
For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone listens to Krugman. If there's something to get wrong, no matter how improbable, he'll be the guy to do it.
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Good to hear. I've always wanted one. I may get myself one yet.
I'm always looking forward to my next range day. I can't complain, though. It's only been 5 days.
We would all be better off if Wright would simply face into obscurity.