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Sometimes people ask me, “what if American bans bitcoin like they did for gold?”

1) That’s why it’s useful to engage politically. To prevent that draconian tail risk. And it’s working. Prevent any sort of anti-Bitcoin supermajority.

2) America had a supermajority in Congress when they did that for gold. They could override every check on power. That’s uncommon. We became highly collectivist for a period of time.

3) America literally put Japanese Americans in camps back then. But not German Americans. Because we were outright racist. And this was all pre civil rights for Black Americans too. Terrible.

4) This was all pre-internet. Centralized media. Few memes. The slow speed of communication was relevant.

The meme-work makes the dream work.

Grayscale’s GBTC Bitcoin ETF continues to decline, with only 35% of its original Bitcoin holdings remaining.

Trump came out better than Elon in this discussion, imho.

Minimal gaffes from Trump. He strategically took the moderate approach here. Elon fished for outlier opinions and controversies but Trump used Akido on them and dominated the discussion. One might like or dislike Trump's positions but in this particular appearance the gaffes were minimal and the positions were purposely moderated and careful.

This was basically the opposite of the Elon and Jordon Peterson interview. In that interview, Elon clearly entertained Jordan and outmaneuvered him. Elon barely wanted to be there. Jordon looked silly.

In this interview with Trump, Elon basically cucked himself for Trump. He knows where his business bread is buttered: Xi, Modi, Erdogan, and whichever US president has momentum.

But meanwhile, for those who say I am biased against Elon, I'm on *his* side for the EU and UK activity against Twitter. Elon is absolutely right there. The only proper American response there is to fuck off. And his memes have been great against Thierry Breton and others. UK and EU should get rekt on that front. I'm pro-Elon there, which is not common outside of SpaceX which is great.

But the proliferation of Nostr would beat all of that latter part regarding communication. It's good to push back and meme against Thierry Breton. Tell him to get rekt. It's even better to make Thierry Breton irrelevant by making it so that he can't send his Karen-like letters to anyone, since Nostr has no CEO, as we swarm around him and invite Britons and Europeans to join us.

Anyway, good evening.

Gm, couldn't post a Marcus Aurelius quote today but just know the difference between things you can change (inside the moral sphere) and things you can't change (not inside the moral sphere), ok?

99% of what you are being shown is pure theater and not for your benefit. Recognize this and you can begin to critically think for yourself—a rapidly disappearing skill in the Western world.

It’d be cool if there was a Jack Handey quote bot.

He’s kind of like the professional shower thoughts guy.

It’d be cool if there was a Jack Handey quote bot.

He’s kind of like the professional shower thoughts guy.

My wife and I were in a fancy restaurant awhile back.

The fancy restaurant was playing fall out boy.

Wife goes, “that’s weird? Why would a restaurant like this be playing that song?”

I reply, “they’re catering to middle aged people like you. This song is twenty years old”

she goes, “oh my god” as if it finally hit her that she’s old now lol 😂

Reminder: You’re not a young millennial anymore, you’re middle aged now. Your life is halfway over.

You’re dying. Never forget that.

Use it as motivation to make the most of your time left.

Over the past couple of days I've noticed a new wave of Nostriches being hatched. Many of them are mentioning free speech. Nostr is a screaming beacon of hope.

Nostr tip to try: reply as often as you can to others’ notes. It puts new followers into other ppls’ feeds. I’ve added lots of new folks based on my friends’ replies. Curate your own experience 💜 thanks for your help with #growingnostr