Speech that orders violence, such as a general telling his soldiers who and when to kill, is close enough to violence.

But all other speech is just speech. It doesn't compel violence. Even if acting upon the speech would be violent, the speech itself isn't.

One might suggest that arguing in support of Israel genociding all Palestinians is violence. But even as such a genocide clearly is, speech in favor of it is just expression of desire and thought. The difference is that the speech CARRIES NO FORCE OF ACTION. And we all benefit from very clear lines in this respect, else our ability to talk about things will be severely curtailed. Even promoting the assassination of Charlie Kirk and then celebrating it afterwards... that too is just speech. The violence was the gun shot.

And frankly, I prefer for assholes to open their mouths and show us who they are. I want us all to be able to talk about despicable thoughts, so that maybe we can head them off before they cause actions.

As for violent retaliation against actual violence (not speech), that is a very touchy and complex game theoretic landscape. In civil countries the best course of action, clearly, is to leave violence to the law enforcement people, and if you are motivated, help them find the perps. I know a lot of Libertarians are super anti-government, but when there is an effective monopoly on violence that isn't behaving horribly, it is better to work with them, even if idealistically you think things should be different. Even places like the UK where they are arresting people for jokes, it is better at this point to work with law enforcement and just put up with the violation of your freedom and rights. All other paths are orders of magnitude worse. It would take quite a lot more than that to inspire me to start thinking about anti-government violence. Maybe I'm pacified by peaceful New Zealand, but also I'm more tolerant of injustices to myself as I get older.

As for uncivilized places, the problem is much more complex. But before you think about joining or forming a violent gang to protect your family, go watch The Godfather movies.

humans are more than left or right, this sect or that sect

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Ga nostriches, can this absolutely loser make any decisions himself? This time Kier appoints someone to help him make knighthoods more diverse!!!!!

Don’t play in a rigged game, choose your own measurement of success, apart from dodging justice a knighthood won’t be worth much in the future, Bitcoin will.

Whole coiner is the new knighthood freaks.

Vibe coding could be as transformative as steam power, and it's unleashing a gold rush where the space of prospecting is ideas.

Let's talk about idea men. An "idea man" is a pejorative, implying someone who only has ideas, they never get off the ground, they're stuck dreaming, and even living in those dreams without caring enough to bring them to fruition. Imagine you're someone in the 1800s who dreams of running a large textile factory but there just isn't the power nearby to run the mill. No powerful rivers, no steady winds. Steam power comes in to the picture and turns a power problem into a much smaller more manageable people problem.

Vibe coding lowers the cost of coding which is a lot like increasing humanity's coding power. Now idea men who couldn't see coding their own prototype from scratch or hiring a bunch of devs and pitching the venture capital can literally type their idea into a tool like Shakespeare. They can go through revisions in hours rather than weeks and months. They now have the power to address market needs in a day..

Often I've felt like an idea man. I keep a lot of them around and always come up with new ones, but I've had too many interests to give each idea the time it needed in the pre-vibe-coding era. A few days with Shakespeare is like installing a big new steam power plant. Now each idea isn't a burden, it's an opportunity. Which leads me to ask the community....

What do you want to see? If idea people are now empowered, bring out your best armchair coding ideas and let's talk about them. Doesn't take more than a motion and a second to try an idea out. Everyone has used better and worse apps. What is something in an app, any app that you use now that could take a better form that you saw before?

I'm posting this on Nostr and Nostr only but if this is such a transformative force then we should think bigger. There are billions out there dying to use what we come up with here, and by instilling out values of decentralization, freedom, and self-sovereignty we can do more with our apps than 1,000 protests and campaigns. What do you say? #vibestr

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The left has been actively importing criminals in order to change congressional representation & reshape voting districts. They have also been actively manufacturing problems that historically make people demand govt solutions (facilitating & subsidizing drug use, legalizing theft, etc).

These are serious issues, so people on the right are not wrong for wanting these issues addressed.

The Trump admin's effort to address these problems has been to create an unaccountable federal police force which doesn't have to show badges or follow any of the basic protocols for making arrests. And like most self serving human beings, ICE agents appear to prefer pursuit of peaceful & productive human beings as opposed to violent gang members who might actually harm them. There are no quotas or controls that are likely to be effective in changing the way any coercively funded paramilitary force is going to behave.

The only real solution to the immigration problem is to eliminate the social programs that attract parasites & criminals, while removing the taxes & controls that repel the intelligent & productive.

The only way the govt can solve the problems the govt created is to get out of the way. Unfortunately, that is unlikely.

Is anyone really surprised that a system requiring theft (inflation) at its base layer….has theft throughout it?

#bitcoin

Canadian Election day with lots at stake.

A continued slide into socialism, big government, and coercion/control or a break towards free markets, smaller government and individual rights and freedoms.

Crossing my fingers!

And PS - Pierre understands #bitcoin's role in the change, even if he can’t say publicly right now.

If there was never a currency that resolved centralization/manipulation, then there has never been an economic or political system that didn’t suffer the same result.

No model of the past can measure this future.

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One thing I've learned about my unfortunate foray back into dating apps, Is that while 90% of the people on their claim to be sick of hookup culture, no one seems to actually want to make genuine connection.

Your government cares about your well-being in the same way that a farmer cares about his cattle.

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"In 1776, when the greatest nation on earth got its start, so did the llluminati. The llluminati's stated goal, which was never really hidden, was and is to control all governments on Earth and to own all private property on Earth."

-Jim Humble, creator of #ChlorineDioxide

Kyiv subway at the start of an air raid at night – likely to be a serious one as Russia is attacking with drones, which often get used against apartment buildings. Disproportionately mothers and grandmothers with small children, though there are people of all ages. This station was pretty full of people already, as it was near a bunch of apartment buildings.

I didn't get a photo of it. But all the staff were wearing ballistic vests. A very good idea as Russia has repeatedly attacked the entrances of subway stations.

They put out cheap little chairs for anyone who needs them:

What if Wallstreet wasn't about money and it was about selling children?

Yeah, yeah, yeah … in before “no such thing as risk-free” reply guys. I know. I understand absolute scarcity is an innovation. I know there is no such thing as risk free. nostr:note1tm6mz37eyh68489vkq7hd42nvm6a46wte9rpps8mp6y8tx4yvm5s70ejsq

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