They’ll be fine they get bail outs

To some degree yes. That is why housing has already held up stronger than many would have predicted in this tightening cycle.

Cash looking for refuge from killer bond and stock market.

Eventually the "wealth-tax" crowd will hunt them down. Then the smarter ones discover bitcoin.

where does it end?

good thing we have bitcoin.... those who are buying gold ngmi because it is also custudied by the banks...

selling #btc at $20k because banks are failing is like leaving nostr because twitter is censoring

After thinking it over, I think PoW does make sense if it's recognized at the account level, so that way it is reusable. If that trust is abused, the account can be blacklisted. That makes more sense to me than requiring PoW at the event level, where it is not reusable.

Excellent question. The answer is yes, and no.

Capitalism by itself is not antithetical to Christianity (or even Communism, for that matter). It is considered a necessary, even welcome, stage in History. The catch here is that this applies only to Industrial Capitalism.

On the other hand, Finance capitalism, and the entire apparatus required to sustain and propagate it globally, *is* antithetical to Christianity. It's Mammon.

Ron Paul (after winning CPAC 5 years in a row) won Iowa & Main in the 2012 primaries, but the news falsely reported the numbers & ignored the delegates that were understandably furious over the lies about the results they were responsible for reporting. There's no telling what impact that had on the rest of the election, & how much they lied elswehere too. There are plenty of other examples of cheating once you start looking. The voting & tabulating equipment is not open source specifically because the companies want to sell outcomes to political interests.

But beyond all that, democracy is *at best* lowest common denominator mob rule. And voting is basically just begging for someone else to fix your life. There's nothing just or sane about the system at all, & I generally think participation is in a way offering some form of consent. If I vote it implies that I'll support the outcome. And if my choices are both evil, then I am supporting evil whether the politician I choose wins or loses. I generally don't want any part in any of it.

That said, I do think local positions are more likely to be influenced by participation & they certainly matter more in my day to day life. So while all of the above still applies, if coloring a dot might help reduce the severity of the stupid that I have to face at home then why not 🙄

I think there is a third category that fits here. Wealth hoarders. Static wealth is not the same thing as capitalist holdings, capital is resources that build income, jobs, and produce goods and services. The wealth working capital produces is reinvested in more capital and that benefits all segments of society. Wealth hoarders sit like Smaug on piles of potential capital and do nothing productive. Regarding religion, have you browsed the financial status of the world’s largest churches? Have you seen the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City? Meanwhile religious institutions idolize men like Jesus? All I can say is choose a dogma, stick close to the actual teachings, and practice what you preach.

For me, once the dam broke most things came pretty easy. It was just really hard to break out of my normie midset initially.

I could not see that 9/11 was a planned demolition. I remember this cute girl at a party trying to tell me about the crazy inconsistencies at the pentagon & the whole mess, & I was just totally numb to it somehow. I remeber listening to that debate where Ron Paul owned Juliani & at the time somehow it didn't register that Juliani got owned. And I fucking voted for McCain in that election 😖

But sometime just after that I read Atlas Shrugged, & I read & listened to a bunch of Thomas Sowell & Milton Friedman, & I read Meltdown by Tom Woods. And then in the summer of 2010 I listened to an interview with Tom Woods & Doug Casey where Doug said something like, "every line on every map is just a line where one group of criminals could no longer advance on another," & Tom said, "returning to the constitution just kinda feels like chasing a unicorn," & that was the last straw. Everything snapped into place. I woke up.

I voted one last time for Ron Paul in 2012 even tho I was already opposed to voting, & then never again, until a recent local vote for sheriff.

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I don't know about you guys, but I will definitely never insert my nsec into any website to get a badge. That's risky AF.

tomorrow i will be playing chess...i am playing in a local league. please wish me luckkkk