There is both incompetence and malice involved and they are not mutually exclusive. Liars are often incompetent so I'd say there is a natural overlap between malice and incompetence.

Malice involves intentional harm and governments are prone to reason along the lines of the Trolley Problem; there is a willingness to sacrifice the lives of some for a believed or imagined 'greater good'. Typically the arguments involved just happen to expand the power of government.

On the moral level - if a person pulls a lever, or enacts a government policy - that with certainty will harm innocent people, that behavior is clearly a form of malice. It doesn't matter that the person falsely believes that they are helping the world; knowingly harming innocent individuals is unethical and malevolent.

How do we know that governments knowingly harm innocent individuals? Because of their track records. From forced sterilizations and physical lobotomies to chemical lobotomies and cruel experiments. Brief references would be Vipeholm in Sweden or the Tuskegee experiments in Alabama, US.

Vaccine mandates and the government-sanctioned discrimination of individuals based on vaccine-status was not merely a result of incompetence, but of direct malice; to willingly force or coerce individuals into injecting poorly tested and potentially harmful products.

In a free market, consumers purchase products they trust based on the understanding they have of their own risks and their personal medical condition. In a centrally planned society, governments collude with big pharma, orders large quantities of poorly tested treatments that there is no free market demand for and then force, or coerce individuals to inject these products while censoring and/or outlawing competing products.

Don't get me started on the U.N. Agenda 2030 that clearly depends on herding people into a feudalist system of CBDCs and social credit scores in order to implement net zero carbon and carbon allowances. Very few people would willingly be trapped in a social credit score system, so governments know fully well that they have to use herding, coercion and removal of better options to achieve the Agenda2030 goals.

The fact that CO2 is essential for plant growth and not a driver of global warming is obvious from the data. Government lies and propaganda informs us that their motivations are about control rather than proclaimed climate concerns.

ALL of my savings are in bitcoin. 100%. No IRA, no 401k.. none of that shit. I’m 100% convicted. This is what people like you fail to understand. Your up against people with a conviction outside of your comprehension. I’ve already accepted my fiat death. There is no future under a fiat standard that I want to be a part of. Now, keep it moving, you’ve wasted enough of my time.

I own a business ( have for 20 years) and convert my fiat into bitcoin weekly. Thanks for your concern, I’m all set. 😂😂😂😂😂

Judging by our interactions I’d say statistically you’re about 99% more likely than me to kill yourself. Be safe Zack, self harm isn’t the way.. good luck on your path. 🙏🙏

Let me know when you know what you think I know… cause if we both know something similar, we’ll both be “in the know”. And as you know, knowing is half the battle, you know!??

Let me know when you have trouble affording goods and services that used to be affordable in a few years so I can laugh at you.

AGREED!! 🤙

I told you I’m done going back and forth with you… sooooo. ?cid=2154d3d76zsc9a2q5o5bfqey689ojpkm05ysnqesre7gr97o&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

Comparing hurricanes to inflation as a policy choice by central banks is literally one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard… and I’m really retarded so congrats

I don’t watch tv, nice try though. I actually witnessed first hand what inflation does to working class people. It is malice. It’s disgusting. And it’s a policy choice made intentionally to control. You have an awful lot of opinions about me and what I stand for don’t you? You aren’t asking questions in good faith. I’m done here. Good luck on your path

You believe govts and central banks are incompetent rather than malicious.. I say they’re both.. bitcoin is our only shot at getting out from under this predatory inflationary debt spiral caused by gross mismanagement of fiat currencies… what exactly do you want to know? You seem to have very strong opinions and your mind made up. Am I wrong?

I'm confused. Dorsey has been developing BlueSky but has been using and promoting Nostr. Aren't these competitors?

Nobody cares if you think bitcoin is a cult.

Your naive view of the world is adorable.

Good luck on your path.

I don’t know what that means. There’s no “buying in”.. it’s up to you to study the history of money and decide for yourself where you see life heading under a fiat standard vs where it could potentially head under a bitcoin standard

Damn, I was giving you credit. You hadn’t used crypto bro yet. Now you checked all the boxes. 😂😂😂😂

I promise you that is taking place. Bitcoiners are all over the map when it comes to personal beliefs and ideas for what the future should look like. Just because you see most of us saying bitcoin above all else doesn’t mean we agree on one single thing other than that fact. You just assumed it was so.

Nice try, fed 😆

No. I’m talking about those of us that are all in on bitcoin.. we disagree on so many things it’s not even funny. We fight constantly. The opposite of cult like behavior.

If you are advocating on behalf of any govt or central bank you are, by default, advocating for fiat

Ok, carry on.

I’m not sure what your problem is, but if it’s not about fundamentals like problem -> solution and is instead about semantics then I’m less interested