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Alfred
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In the begginning was the WORD. Christian, freedom, bitcoin pleb.

Laser, my mum just died. High blood pressure since the vax. Took a pain killer and died. She was 71, so not very young. Healthy all her life, but smoked a few. Still, she 'died suddenly'

It may be seen as a bit harsh, but my genuine opinion is that anyone who mistreets a dog deserves the death penalty. Taking a loyal and innocent animal who would do anything for his human and mistreating it is just pure evil.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

As developed nations continue to enter sovereign debt crises akin to the 1940s, there are a few main outcomes.

Option 1) In a world without bitcoin, or if bitcoin fails, central banks and their governments recapitalize themselves with gold, devalue the people, and do another cycle of this inflationary policy for the next few generations. The Treasury/Fed handbook literally has a written option for this, although it is stated more opaquely. It can be done in the US (and probably many other countries) based on current laws if shit hits the fan. Denmark's central bank and China's economic ministers have also written similar things regarding extreme outcomes. It's pretty straightforward based on the past.

Option 2) We go into a centralized technocratic future. Centralized AI and CBDCs win. People have cuck money that the AI+government control. It's like Brave New World, 1984, take your pick. Hard to say, but not free.

Option 3) Open source money wins. Bitcoin and its ecosystem win. Governments get defunded from their fiat printers, and have to be more honest with their ledgers or default and get reconstructed since they can't print what their people hold as savings, or in the hegemon's case, can't print what the world holds. Probably a world of chaos for a time during the transition, but also an opportunity for peace and building the next era. Keeping track of the nukes would probably be a big deal, like when the Soviet Union fell. It's actually kind of remarkable that they collapsed economically and politically but in an orderly enough way to keep track of and secure most of the nukes.

I don't know which one will win, but I consider Option 3 to be the honorable method; the path of transparency. That's the one I am rooting for and building for.

If I fail, I would like it written that it's the method I tried for, but realistically the AI+government will probably delete most of the records of all of the failures anyway, since that is how history works, without any sort of objective truth keeper. Our best hope is to hide records in a distributed way and hope they can remain undisturbed for a while. At least bitcoiners have a tendency to write stuff in steel and make low time preference things. Some psychopath will hopefully carve a life work in steel in a cave or something, but who knows, lol.

And ironically, if Option 3 wins, any of the losing factions could still insert their ideas and paths into the Bitcoin blockchain, now or in the future. It's the most immutable database that we know how to build, and would preserve their ideas as it does our ideas. Like, you know what? I *want* the Communist Manifesto to be in the immutable Bitcoin blockchain, because I want people in the future to know how *bad* it is. It might already be in there; I don't know. I wouldn't want people centuries from now to think about those ideas and believe they came up with something new; I want to preserve my enemies' texts because I believe I can win through markets, force, virtue, and truth.

I think that's almost always what determines the winning side. Losers want to burn their enemies' texts to ensure that their good ideas don't spread too much. Winners want to preserve their enemies' texts to ensure that their bad ideas are never repeated.

Nice analysis. I'm not particularly hopeful that our governments will do what's in the best interest of the people, but that they will do what is in the best interest of the governing class. They are people, like any others, ruled by their personal fears and ambitions. If the fire of government isn't constrained, it burns down all around it, or its like a parasite killing the host.

This is why we Bitcoin.

My hope is that we are left to Bitcoin and not criminalized. The Mandibles!

Worth remembering that Germany bombed London and Coventry before the allies bombed Germany. The only thing that prevented Germany from destroying the UK was their ability to do so, not a higher morality. The whole war and every death was a tragedy. Ww1 and 2 were the destruction of Europe and European culture. The next 70 years were the outplayed of that. The sons of Japheth fighting each other.

He was a statist and did terrible things for the British Empire. His justifications are similar to those statists who believe that anything done for America's national interest is therefore justified. In the end, these are the very actions that bring down the Empire. He was a good orator though, you have to give him that. He also really did believe in his cause against nazism. The survival of the nation was at times in the balance, and it's hard to put ourselves in that mindset. In 1940 it looked like England was about to be overrun by some quite unsavory characters.

Dresden was a tragedy. A beautiful city full of people whose leaders had gone mad. Destroyed with families and all their hopes and dreams. Hamas are evil, and I actually think the Palestinians should move to Egypt, but to wish for death and suffering is something else.

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A week ago the war machine lost its funding when the speaker was fired. Then we are all told that we have to 'support Israel', which means put our money into the weapons industry. Suspicious timing to say the least.

Israel is about to go ape shit on Hamas. You can't have videos of muslim thugs invading your country and kidnapping your women to beat them in broad daylight without a subsequent ape shit moment.

Muslim terrorists really are the lowest of the low. Abducting mothers and beating them up, taking them who knows where for an awful fate. It's like they want the rest of the world to see how barbaric and retarded they are.

GM to my people

Both great reads. Seveneves is great too.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-raises-minimum-wage-fast-food-workers

This is how freedom dies - slimy politicians buying votes by making business owners pay entry level workers 20 bucks an hour. Minimum wage is zero, and always will be. Don't like the wages? Move employer, start a side hussle, get educated... If we trust politicians to tell us the value of a worker more than the market, we are doomed.

https://www.garydbarnett.com/

Garry d barnett writes about how the banking cartels are stealing your freedom and is worth reading.

Funny how you can only subscribe via the banking cartels though (PayPal, visa...), and not with bitcoin. Come on Gary, put a bitcoin address on the site.