Have you guys considered SimpleX becoming the Nostr DM solution? I guess running in browser is the main question...

Even a pedophile?

good morning 🫂💜🧡☀️🍻🤙🏻

good morning 🫂💜🧡☀️🍻🤙🏻

What your talking about is censorship. Just a different flavor of it. Saying people are slow should be banned. As a collective.

Bitcoin will lead to that eventually, but in the meantime I think we should be trying to use the power of our votes to help it along. Though I recognize that our voting power is pathetic, it's better than nothing. I don't think checking out of the political process completely as many here have chosen to do is helpful.

Since realizing the extent that the media is used to manipulate us and divide us along political lines, I've come to see just how badly ingrained this divisiveness is among people. Even on nostr I am constantly seeing people fall into the traps. I divide my social media time about equally between here and Reddit, and while the majority of Reddit is falling into the "left" leaning traps, here it is very much the "right" leaning traps that dominate.

We are supposed to be trying to break free of the influence of major media on #nostr, but it's so deeply ingrained that we continue to perpetuate the bullshit, and it's all so trivial in the scheme of things. Like if you find yourself upset about whatever "woke" crap you've read recently then you're falling face first into the trap. What you consider to be a sign of the degradation of society is only a small minority of extreme behavior that is amplified to seem like a major problem, and by posting about it you only amplify it further.

Then we are all forced to take sides against each other. I think much of the "woke" stuff I see is as ridiculous as many of you do, but I also tend to lean left on some of the more moderate social issues, so when I side with the left on the moderate issues it allows you to lump me in with the extreme woke bullshit. Now I'm a villain because I'm on the same side as the extremists.

It goes the other way too obviously. When people on the right support theocratic ideas I am extremely repulsed, even though they are probably a minority. However I can then also assume that everyone on the right implicitly supports those ideas by supporting right wing candidates and they are then my adversaries by default. What can I do? I have no choice but to oppose them.

Then we are caught up fighting each other instead of the real problem, the banks and the ultra wealthy elites that perpetuate a system that steals from us. It doesn't matter what party is in power, there will always be a wedge issue that's used to divide us that can't be resolved to either side's satisfaction.

Rather than fighting it out at the highest levels of government, these issues should be getting kicked down a level of two so consensus can be reached at a regional level. Then people will have more agency to choose to live under a jurisdiction that more closely aligns with their values. The free market can decide what works best for society this way. #Bitcoin will help lead us towards a more decentralized form of governance I hope. Until then I think the only political battle worth fighting for is whatever promotes the adoption of Bitcoin and/or removes power from centralized hands.

For that second part I tend to think that the left has better ideas for reducing the power of the rich. I know how we all feel about taxes, but if we can tax the shit out of billionaires that will reduce their power. Other forms of wealth redistribution like welfare programs, social safety nets, universal healthcare, and even UBI are steps in that direction. The cost of these programs is irrelevant. They're already printing money to infinity, why shouldn't the people get a larger slice?

Anyway I'm posting this now against my better judgement. If you actually read this far then I'm interested in your thoughts, even if you just want to call me a filthy socialist.

#Politics #USPolitics

Indeed , morals are just a reflection of the true ultimate ABSOLUTE reality that has always been there, always is and will always be because there’s none other than that ABSOLUTE reality

I'm not that into Eastern philosophy. Although, I am a moral skeptic, so I can more or less agree with this.

Survey not interview

Ok, survey?

Society has an hierarchical structure where certain info is only shared and dispersed to those who have “authority” to it e.g (restricted, confidential, top secret etc etc).

You learn that decision makers on top have an overall view of the situation and can make better decisions.

Decisions that occasionally make no sense to the people on the ground but it’s only because those on the ground are not privy to the information that decision makers know.

What if the adoption is being discussed at high levels not privy to us folks on a level you can associate with a junior Non-Commissioned Officer in the DOD?

What if #BTC  is inevitable and it’s incorporation into society is being strategically done to avoid mass chaos?

Yeah, if there is one rising hegemon in the world, the incentives align to use his rules to get ahead. Cheating only pays when the hegemon is in decline.

A rising hegemon would get ahead himslef by dictating the use of a fork in which subsidy is increased. One excuse for such a thing would be "it's unfair that the maxis got so much of the network without contributing much". Doing so would end up setting back the true chains for decades.

For now we are in a declining hegemonic system and the hegemon is trying to keep control. Smaller parties are incentivized to cheat. Won't be the case for long.

no, socialism. Bitcoin would lose its name to a fork that the overwhelming majority would use to transact.

They would say : look we need more subsidy to "grease" the economy. And the retards would believe them. And then all that economic power would shift to a fork where that's the case. We would be stuck with "bitcoin classic" or something.

Uses it once when it’s first released… “This sucks Twitter is better”

Hello fellow plebs 👋

I will be zapping 200 sats to every comment on this post. I hope I won’t regret later 😅

Let’s go ⚡️

I get the principle but I disagree.

I still have fears for Bitcoin once eternal September sets in. I fear that once too many enter, the attacks will be irresistible and that the 21 M damn will irreversibly break.