hey, they have to lie to us that we matter, world would be way more depressive otherwise

Socialism creates a world of despair. The pillars of civilization have never been created by a bureaucratic state. The United states today is just the last example of failed socialism. After starting centralizing education, medicare,.medicaid, social security and all that socialist shit, the quality of life went to the bottom.

It's not that socialism fails. It works perfectly for what is designed to do: create a land of irresponsible and weak people in need for help from birth to death enslaved under the oligarchy of politicians and bureaucrats who keep all the rights and resources for them. The beginning stage where they give free services to the population creating debts that cannot be repaid is not socialism, it's the weakening of people and the economic system on purpose.

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Argentina is moving up my bucket list of places to visit. Quotes from Milei’s speech at UN today.

“The UN has become a multi-tentacled Leviathan that seeks to decide how each nation should live."

"We reject the 'Pact for the Future'—it is nothing but a socialist blueprint for control."

"Freedom is the only path forward for nations; we must resist any system that curtails it."

"Socialism designs a world it can't achieve, and when it fails, it represses the people."

"Argentina will lead an agenda of freedom, not submission to globalism."

"We must empower individuals, not centralize power in bureaucratic institutions."

"Freedom, free markets, and individual rights are the pillars of a prosperous society."

"We reject the collectivist agendas that destroy wealth and enslave nations."

"Austerity and economic discipline are the only roads to true independence."

"Long live freedom!"

My trollish side wants to draw those funny lines of who is standing straight vs who is leaning in, since it favors me there.

But the funny thing is that he's like the most masculine and dominant person around, to such extent that he's super chill while doing so. He has a scar from a machete cut on his forearm. His extended family and friend group gravitates around him as their patriarch. He leans in here because pictures mean nothing to him. He has nothing to prove in pictures because he proves it in person instead. He leans because he knows leaning means nothing. That which is strong is flexible. The Laozi of leaning.

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Ugh. I still feel as horrible as someone using Farcaster. The cure for my sickness is reading your wins. Tell me something exciting.

Very well said, brother.

A world where we can treat each other with the simple assumption of “human-ness” as we do our loved ones is a beautiful idea.

Best we can do is cultivate that universal love and compassion within ourselves and bring it into the world through our daily interactions.

(Lol because “See, it’s simple - just find enlightenment!” is kind of what I’m saying 😉)

honoring the humanity is each person is the exact opposite of equating their situation, their skills, their beliefs, or their opportunity with their race or sex.

While I agree with the sentiment, I feel I must say that neither “white,” nor “straight” nor “male” are character traits. Equating them as such is literally the problem, and is often correctly described as racism and sexism… because that’s basically what it is and why it causes nothing but problems and foolish assumptions. Now I don’t say this to play the “YoUr A RaciST” card, because ultimately what you said matters basically none at all, just like the overwhelming majority of people who think the same way about the world. But woke is nothing but “approved racism” as opposed to “racism we don’t like.” That’s it. And while I have no horse in the race in this conversation. I felt obligated to point that out, because such an equating is very backward and will never lead to actual understanding.

It literally **demands** that we lead our thinking of each other and place a bunch of arbitrary racial and sexual traits (not actually meaningful ones) at the top of our judgement hierarchy, and leads to exactly the problems implied.

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Thanks for your note. What I love about nostr is the countless opportunities to engage with people whom I may disagree with, yet share meaningful and thoughtful discussions and hopefully both come away having learned something, expanded our perceptions/understanding of a topic, and leaving the world slightly more compassionate than it was before

What proof of this do you have?

Believe it.

Bullish on privatized everything.

Bitcoiners should stop simping to any political banner or system and realize that they are a new kind of power unto themselves.

It will only be with the full realization of this that peoples will start to organize the new political dynasty and possibilities for a future freed from the lies and corruption of a monetary system that is tied to the current system of party politics.

I thought twice about it, but I kept it for a reason. I wondered if you would read that and assume that the rest of my post would be fluff. But we’ve had discussions in the past, and ive read many of your notes. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I disagree but usually I find that I respect where you’re coming from.

I hope you’ll reconsider reading the rest, and engaging with it in good faith, if you trust after a couple of years here together that I’m a thoughtful person. (And if not, welp, I can’t please everyone 😉).

I recognize that the line rings of woke cliches. In general, I’m allergic to the wokey stuff. But I had to think about it, and the fact is that the policies I was referring to, that Trump implemented (which I do answer, later in my reply) did not really impact me directly. They pissed me off but they didn’t take away my freedoms. Trump did numerous things that reduced freedoms for a huge number of Muslim people, and brown & black people in general, from early on. For starters. But it didn’t make my life harder in the ways it did theirs.

I think we both believe in freedom as one of the highest societal ideals, and (judging from your handle) we agree that the government+big bank fiat financial system is the root cause of an inordinate amount of suffering and injustice. Sharing that perspective at least, I hope you’ll hold that in the back of your mind if you choose to read my answer.

Bukele has detained over 76,000 Salvadorans, many with little evidence or access to due process.

More than 1% of his country’s population.

Forty thousand children have seen one parent or both detained.