The conservatives in India who are in power right now are very much headed in the fascist direction. Building a personality cult, religion as a tool of control, curbs on free speech, attacks on opposition in the name of corruption, etc.
It's been a slow creep.
The problem is there are no political parties in India that has libertarian ideals as a part of their core ideology.
There's only been one like that but that was in the 60's and it went defunct after a decade.
The collapse of fiat currencies and the failure of centrally planned economic policies
Paying for the legal fees with the sats from your zaps
Manipulating language is an amazing tool of tyrants.
The meaning of the word 'liberal' has been deformed to such an extent that I feel lucky that I'm bilingual.
Posts I put out are being auto-zapped thrice from your end
Unless it was intentional, you might want to look into that
India is not a 'dictatorship'.
The country is very much a democracy going through an 'adolescent phase' where it thinks it is different from everyone else, repeats the same mistakes that has been made by many other democracies decades before it and refuses to learn from their mistakes.
To those who want to set up a self-custodial LN address, check out Zeus
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Yes! I think many people have a misunderstanding of what that idea represents and tend to get involved in the Ethereum ecosystem with that in mind.
I used to be that guy.
Took a lot of reading and research to stop saying that and to just say Bitcoin instead.
In my interpretation,
the American revolutionaries fought for Swatantra, which means self-sovereignty
whereas
the Indian freedom fighters fought for Swaraj, which means self-rule
If this interpretation is accurate, it shouldn't surprising that the two countries have taken the path that they have socially, culturally and economically since independence.
I will continue to whine about lightning and criticise it with good faith but the haters with bad faith arguments have no idea how far it has come.
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I'd use this
Though I haven't found any use for ordinals and everything associated with them as of yet, it has proven quite useful to make value judgements about people and organisations based on how they are reacting to them.
It was a simple removal of certain restrictions in how transactions are designed, with the intention of giving those who are using Bitcoin script more freedom in what they can do with the protocol.
If this is how they are making use of that removal of restrictions, it says a lot about them and their own value judgements about what the market wants.
I don't have filters on my node. I don't think it's right. The right thing to do is to let the market decide what is valuable and what isn't.
Besides, I expect other things useful to me to be built as a result of this removal of restrictions.
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These schools of thought have given me a fresh and clear perspective on what Bitcoin's impact is going to be.
And an understanding that this movement is about something much bigger than just the network's impact on the monetary and financial order.
Bitcoin was an 'orange pill'.
But I've now been 'white pilled' by libertarianism and the Austrian school, something that Bitcoin couldn't do for me. Milei's recent WEF speech kickstarted my exploration of them.