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Hahaha good point. I mean cats are pretty damn bad ass and they’re not bombing children 😂

It has to be an ego thing. There’s no way they don’t actually know this shit. They’re coping soooo hard that all the evidence is being blocked from their awareness.

This country also destroyed the economies of most countries all over the world. It’s not an exaggeration that the world is poorer because of America. So that’s another reason why foreigners want to come here. They’re financial refugees in a sense.

nostr:npub1vemf09ljxzeanx2ht7wzzenphchw3yvjzzp6a4pdp8k8v6qj58xs43mz3k insane. I really think banning second citizenships is 100% because they want to block the exits. Just imagine all other countries now making it super difficult for Americans to enter their country and to get citizenship somewhere else. It’s so ironic how things change.

Man I have a few friends that were arguing Trump didn’t have any wars during his first presidency so we should vote him back in because he’ll actually stop these wars. It took a minute to pull up multiple articles showing countless attacks he ordered during his first presidency. I don’t get how people legitimately have these beliefs that Trump is anti war.

This is also true lol I heard that dogs are actually more domesticated than cats

The only reason they come here is because they’re getting money from the government who is stealing money from Americans. So whose fault is that really? It would be retarded not to leave your shithole country in offer to come here and get free housing, food, and healthcare. But the Chinese are the communists 🤣

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1) what?

The land you’re on was stolen. I assume you respect property rights but ignore the fact that your property is on stolen land. That means you only respect property rights when it’s beneficial to you.

That was just a one time thing. Oh and the TSA searching your asshole just to fly to across the country is not a big deal either. Oh and the patriot act. Oh and the countless psyops. But hey Trump is gonna make America great again and we’re still the best because reason.

As long as it’s a red white and blue dick then it’s okay 🤣

Imagine taking pride in your slave master being “better” than other slave masters. And then also being so retarded that you don’t even realize America has one of the highest rates of citizenship renunciation in the world. Just because you were brainwashed to have American pride by your government schools, doesn’t mean this isn’t the land of taxes and surveillance.

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Most people are familiar with placebos. It’s the treatment substitute in an experiment that participants think is the real treatment. Fewer people are familiar with the expectation effect. It’s the psychological phenomenon we experience when a placebo changes how we perceive something. For example, people who thought they were in the presence of an allergen have had allergic reactions as if it was really there. Their expectation literally caused the allergic reaction with no allergen present.

The video below shows that you can’t even stop the expectation effect when you know it’s there. Your brain fills in the colors it expects to see. It’s interesting how much our brains have adapted to save energy.

What things in your life can you think of being influenced by your expectations (like a placebo)?

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I guess just think that non principled people are the way they are because they are weak. Mentally weak to be specific.

The reason I say incentives is because all these other things are driven by incentives. Culture changes to accommodate incentives. For example, the entire chivalry movement was born from a dying cult's wish to keep their tradition's practices alive. They found a way to integrate their beliefs into Christian culture. Women found this particularly beneficial as it provided them better treatment so they were incentivized to reinforce men that played along. The men who played along were incentivized to adopt these practices in order to gain sexual opportunities. You can argue the same about genetics. You are incentivized to mate with people who have better genetics. Historians are incentivized to write the version of history most profitable to them or their governments that are paying them. Incentives are the driving force of our actions.

I think looking at incentives will provide the best answer. I find it interesting that Europeans came to America to escape the rule of European monarchies. The incentive to fight back became more profitable on American soil so they mobilized and got it done. Then the incentive to establish a government and tax the colonies was high. That resulted in the "head west" movement. People were trying to escape taxation by moving farther away from the tyrants. Eventually they reached the pacific ocean and had no where else to go. The people who were bound to the land got taxed the hardest. I always find it interesting to see that consistent pattern: things that are taxed the most are the things that are hardest to move or hide. You're a farmer? It's pretty easy to tax that. Home owner? You bet your ass that's getting taxed. Software developer? Much harder to tax that. Get paid in bitcoin? Hard to withhold earnings that way.

TLDR: the nature of these relationships will always be a push pull between tyrants and plebs. What can people get away with? What can the government succeed in taxing? As jobs move online, it becomes much cheaper to leave the region you are being taxed in. I believe the sovereign individual thesis is playing out right now.

The respect and admiration Americans give these hypocrites is wild

Great post. The closest thing humanity has ever had to a free market was probably in the early years post American revolution. It didn’t last long unfortunately.

It’s getting weird 😂

But if they did that, they’d have no one else to call racist 😂

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Tbf I think Keynesian ideas are accompanied in mainstream economics by ideas of other schools of thought as well, which would be useful for Bitcoiners (and people advocating for freedom) to be aware of.

They would be Neoclassical economics, Modern Monetary Theory, Behavioural economics and Public choice theory.

All of these boil down to one thing - treating human beings like lab rats.

Their method involves making hypotheses, testing their hypotheses in the 'real world', gathering evidence, identifying variables and adjusting for or trying to control these variables and then coming up with new hypothesis based on observed evidence.

This is wildly useful for studying things that are always the same throughout history and don't differ from each other based on time or location - physics, chemistry, biology. Not so much for human beings who change with time, environment, upbringing, circumstances, genetics and culture.

Despite that, this method has taken over politics, law, ethics and psychology. In fact, social sciences and humanities are dominated by this method.

According to them, reasoning and reflecting on things is unscientific, while critically thinking about things and testing them with observation and evidence is scientific.

Nothing is true and everything is just a hypothesis to be tested.

(They apply this to everything - except the very claim that nothing is true and everything is just a hypothesis to be tested. That would make that claim itself not true and just a hypothesis. So there must be some truths that don't require hypothesising and testing. But this is swept under the rug.)

Anyways,

You'll find that a lot of people who recommend, propose, implement or enforce crazy policies and ideas are often driven by this method. They believe that truth and evidence is on their side and that they are 'right'. If not, they will amend the truth and evidence to make sure that they are right.

Studying Austrian economics and the rational method would be a great way to tackle this. In addition to that, more and more people simply staying humble and stacking sats.

I believe the Austrian economists described these fields as being envious of true hard sciences. The logic reminds me of vaccine research. They always begin with the unproven claim that contagion theory is real. That disease spreads through tiny microscopic droplets that we can’t see. That these droplets have the capacity to wreak havoc on the entire body. Without real evidence, they start experimenting on people using all kinds of insane interventions. Did you know that they used to treat pellagra, a vitamin deficiency based disease, with arsenic? They’d pump people up with it and quarantine you if you showed symptoms of pellagra. After countless years and harm, they finally realized it wasn’t contagious and that the victims just needed niacin. The same problem led to countless deaths when they assumed scurvy was contagious. And yet, scientists have never been able to isolate a virus in its pure form outside of the human body. If you catch the flu from someone else with the flu, where did the flu come from? It’s frustrating and retarded because it allows them to set the boundary lines for research and debate on these subjects. They can just move the goalposts and find a different explanation when their theories don’t work. And if you question the foundation of their stance, instead of the baseless research, then you’re labeled anti science lmfao.