I believe when they don’t feel safe anymore, they’re more prone to change.

I have surrounded my self with Bitcoiners and libertarians. People who I thought I had values alignment with. but over the past ~3 years I've watched a lot of them change their values. ...it's been a sad few years for me.

That's excellent! I have unfortunately hear this quite a lot. Especially in the past 3 years. I have people follow me around a room just to try to explain these things to me.

I hear people say things like “a wife should be submissive”, “relationships can’t be 50/50, they have to be 51/49”, “the breadwinner/protector is the decision maker”, “the man is the leader", "women need love not respect" etc, etc. And then nearly in the same breath ask “why don’t women want to get married anymore?!?!”

Well ya know, when you are offering people servitude, and they have other options in life, you shouldn’t be surprised when your offer gets turned down. The human spirit wants to be free 🕊️

Nobody represents us. Nobody speaks for us. We have no leaders.

#Bitcoin

NEW: Congressman Thomas Massie introduces the "Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, HR 1846."

He states, "Americans would be better off if the Federal Reserve did not exist. The Fed devalues our currency by monetizing the debt, causing inflation."

I love how some “bitcoiners” think they get to define what a “bitcoiner” is.

Let me help you all out:

A “bitcoiner” is a person who uses bitcoin.

Done. End of definition. GFY.

I find myself wanting to use social media less and less with each passing day. that includes nostr. when I was a kid the Internet gave my weird, nerdy, introverted self a chance to find other misfits on the weird and wild web.

social media is mostly an echo chamber and a collection of in-groups or out-groups. the same vague platitudes and GMs are recycled, and just like Bitcoin podcasts it's the same old shit on repeat. if you disagree you become part of the out-group.

I'm weary. I was an alcoholic/addict and those friends are either dead or gone from my life in one way or the other. I've found no tribe. I think I'm perpetually going to be on the fringe and permanently in the out-group, and I've become okay with that. Not sad, not depressed, this isn't a call for help. I've no patience or time for online arguments or disagreements

Just acknowledging what I've come to realize about myself. I think I'm at the point where I would rather have the silence and solitude, maybe the company of a book, rather than change myself to make friends and join a tribe. I just don't know if I see any real value in social media at all.

GM! #nostr #Bitcoin #coffeechain #plebchain #grownostr