No problem. I appreciate your reply. I’m just a 60 y.o. pizza guy (not techie at all) that cares deeply about freedom. I worried as shit about the future of my children and grandchildren. Therefore I just want to take every chance I can to get this country right before it’s too late.

I and do believe Trump - Along with Elon, RFK, Vivek, Vance, Gabbard - make a formidable team. (Obviously I’ve been disappointed before by politicians, so who knows??)

And to be honest, after the covid hysteria and tyranny I am beyond disgusted. And it’s what drove me to bitcoin.

Bitcoin though - Does give me great hope, as does Nostr.

Lastly - I live in Michigan - our democratic far leftist tyrannical zealot Governor locked michigan down like a bitch. Luckily we live 20

Minutes from Indiana - and were down there all

The time and I drove to Florida 5x’s because I refuse to wear their slave mask to Fly.

Republican ran states - as bad as they initially were - were far far better and much, much more free than democrat ran ones.

Presidents have coattails, bring Tons of appointments, etc.

Therefore, I’m taking my best shot. Take care.

I wish you well.

If Sun Tzu was living today, he would be a teacher on #nostr and he would be quoting for #decentalization

I am on Twitter but with a different profile picture, name and bio nostr:note18d4lhlu8f0qsms90pzstfqdup2k6mxhf7vyg0fc8nhhzrj06xamqxh8xuu

Coinbase went down again today, as is tradition

Good thing Germany was able to get rid of that criminal not-money (btc) before it hit a new high ! 🤣🤣🤣

They traded a scarce inflation proof asset for money they can create with words...

I completely agree with you!! Couldn't agree more.

I need an Omega Candle so that I can win the company end of year price prediction contest we held in January 😅

Well, at a certain point I mostly agree with what you say. Responsability is what makes the difference. If you don't take care of your privacy for example, then you can't be private. For example, people who show their lives on social media cannot force others to respect their privacy. And of course, you can always give your opinion, doesn't matter if we agree or not. This is why we are on #nostr

- Idiotic & unethical mentality: my neighbor has more than me. It is unfair. We should redistribute wealth.

- Smart & ethical mentality: my neighbor has more than me. I need to learn how he get there in order to do the same. I should learn how to create wealth.

Yesterday I had a go with one of those ab-wheels...today breathing hurts!

Man those things are tough.

#nosfit

Not blind at all. But thanks for keeping it civil.

While your statement is probably true, other factors are true as well. Some uncancelable entities moved the needle. Rogan and Chappelle for sure. Also Elon purchasing Twitter helped immensely. And a ground swell of people - finally - got sick and tired of being called every prerogative known to man.

Many Other companies began to lose high value employees - old enough to comfortably leave (that would have stayed longer).

But let’s say u r completely correct, I am blind as you wrote.

I still want the innocent J6’ers Pardoned, I’d love to see Snowden free to return home, and Ross’s sentence - at least commuted.

Freeing Ross may nerve be closer than this election. The left has made zero movement in this direction.

Further - In my humble opinion, bitcoiners and libertarians can sometimes get too deep in the theoretical weeds.

Well, while I never make Heroes of any human - at my age I’m fully aware of their ability to betray - but I would argue - for now - Bukele was/is a great move for El Salvador. Elections matter.

While I agree we must change the system, I believe you should take all the ground you can, when given the opportunity. Trump is by far better than Kamala. As a libertarian I’ve had knock down drag out fights with the right for decades, but today’s left… - They have gone insane. We are now - finally - making headway against DEI, all the woke Bullshit, bitcoin is growing, as is Nostr, the right embraces BTC far more than the left.

I’ll take the breathing room that a Trump presidency can give us.

I was at J6 for Trump’s speech (though didn’t go to the capital). My heart goes out to the innocents still jailed - I want them pardoned. I want Snowden pardoned (maybe there’s a chance) and I want Trump to: Free Ross. All That is certainly worth my vote.

I will not be voting in this election, or any others for that matter.

Not because I don’t believe in democracy, nor because I don’t believe in the political rights that have been won by generations past; but because of how atrophied both have become in the mutilated abomination that we currently call our form of politics and voting. The false dichotomy that is the current forms of red and blue I believe are much more damaging and pernicious than refusing to vote for either could ever be. Our political agency has been lost, and politics is most squarely to blame.

There once was a time that our elections were actually free and fair, that voting for the right people in the right places and circumstances could make significant differences that actualized The Political; but that is no longer true of the system of politics that has replaced The Political. All that we have now is a system of false and petty differences that will ensure that the machine of government and military continues to crush on, be it under a banner of blue or red—this is the only real ‘political’ choice that we are given. As for everything else, it will continue on to masquerade and marionette towards the promise of possibilities that will never come, just as the broken dreams of change will continue to tell.

I say this to you as the US federal government funnels billions of dollars into foreign wars and shell corporations that will get their money no matter who wins. I tell you this as every budget continues to spiral out of control with every politician having more concern with how they will get their cut, than how they will stop the madness. I say this at the very moment that some child is being killed with munitions from money that each of us as citizens had our dollars financed, and with there being no possibility for any of us to end any of this—at least not as far as voting is concerned.

While I believe in democracy, it is not the one of the state provides, and while I believe in voting, it is not a principle that doing once every four years can solve anything at all. Our current system of politics is at its end, and it has been for quite a while. It is all entirely clear and apparent for anyone to see, and yet the consequence of this truth is far too profound and existential for anyone to actually speak to. That is because the terror of having to admit to ourselves that our political system has been overthrown and taken over by non-elected officials who are responsible to no one but themselves and their contingency of politics is all that matters within the engine of the state, and its demand to remain in power no matter what. The real danger is the state of emergency that has become every day of our lives, with no possible hope of it ending, no matter who is elected to whatever role it may be. The machine of the state operates in one direction, and it is to continue to gather more power for itself no matter what.

To accept the truth of the darkness that we are in is to also accept the fact that this is not something that we can vote our way out of. If we are to create the radical change that we must manifest not only to save ourselves from the destitution and squaller that the current system of politics seeks to impress upon us, but to also create a radical new hopeful future where the vote and democracy can means something again, than it is something that we must build for ourselves alone. If we are to give ourselves and posterity a future that is more free and far than the one that we were given, where The Political can open itself up to politics once again, we must accept that the current path leads to nowhere. We must demand of ourselves to go out into that darkness and seek out new and different solutions that are outside and beyond the power of the state to influence or control so that we may access The Political once again and see what the truth of voting and democracy can offer, or what new and different political systems can offer.

The Political is the radical power that all people everywhere are alway entitled to when the see that the power to create change comes not from asking for approval from the old systems; but to neutralize them with something new. While I do not know what these new systems are, or how they will be created, I do see that there is something immensely powerful in what is being built here. The internet and the possibilities that it offers along with decentralized, censorship-resistance systems imbedded with cryptography at their heart, and sovereignty in mind may just be the kind of protocol that we need to breath life into The Political once again. Few of you will believe in the possibility of such new system of politics for the future, and even fewer will participate in attempting to building such systems, but I believe it is our only hope to create a future which is more free than the one that we have been given, and it is the only hope we have now to ever access The Political again.