"He that lendeth to another in time of prosperity, shall never want help himself in the time of adversity."

JUST IN: 🇦🇷 Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei, with Chief of Staff Nicolás Posse and potential Economy Minister Luis "Toto" Caputo, visits NYC and Washington DC.

Their aim: forge ties with the 🇺🇸 Biden administration and strategize on political and economic agendas.

Wolverine vapes now, We lost 😭😭

Guys… what do I want for Christmas?

My family is annoyed that I have like 3 things in my list and nobody just wants to get me sats because “that’s boring, you always want sats.”

But I want it now !

lol I’ve been saying this to my parents for so long.

“But if I bought it a week ago I would’ve paid $1000.”

“Yeah but you still spend 750. If you saved 250 you put 250 in a savings account and spent nothing”.

*crickets*

Yes, there is a subtlety though that maybe could be also be effective. In Cantonese there is an expression "唔好攪攪震", something like "don't make trouble". While it is used paternalistically by authority to discourage challenging the status quo it also has a connotation of observing that we can often avoid attracting too much attention to ourselves and thereby be able to achieve what we want without unnecessary friction. Our conviction is strong but we recognise that a head on collision might not be to our advantage. For example, from my observation would Bitcoin adoption be different if it was less vocal about being in an antagonist position against the criminal financial power and the state. Quietly building the infrastructure without the slogan and rhetoric that attracts attention may also be considered. Ice vs water. I'm not sure that that might be too idealistic as I've certainly faced many situations where direct hard confrontation is the only choice. It shouldn't be our first choice though.

It's the pathology that seems to pervade so many peoples, online at least, emotional lives that seems self destructive. I used Bitcoin as an example just for the sake of explanation, not necessarily because I think that problem is particularly evident amongst the bitcoin advocates.

As a side note, many who did keep their heads down lived to finally escape whereas most that resisted were simply imprisoned/killed. That's a whole other area of discussion though as there's nuance there.

Snoop Dogg posts a photo with a blunt 💨

Help me with some thoughts I'm having. I saw a video of a blue haired youth making statements about their identity. The content of their beliefs are neither here or there for me but the delivery, the foot stamping conviction, the we are victims of an oppressive system and those not with us are our enemy were what stood out. The comments were a chorus of rallying round. Then I started to think that we see that too amongst bitcoiners, gold bugs, economists and then, frankly, a whole range of other groups. Narratives are taken as fact. Now I have no problem with having conviction about ones own beliefs but is it the technical/digital aspect of communication on social media that has spawned this sound bite style radical interaction? I have lived with a socialist/communist society my whole life and I've only ever seen that type of sloganeering and state sanctioning of that psychology in people in that context so I'm also thinking about whether this resent/spite is also being encouraged by certain groups. The "FengQiao JingYan" is worth considering as an example of the supposed logic of mobilising the masses to maintain order against the "enemies". There were always state trusted leaders assigned to sway the groups and in turn groups would be totally willing to rally round those influencers with those emotions encouraged by narratives to fuel the fire. Keeping your head down, and as my father in law used to say "Just smile, nod and try to move along", becomes almost the focus of daily life, at risk of being accused and being on the receiving end of the anger of the mob. Given that in the west it is not only socialist influenced groups who exhibit this stance, I find it unsettling to see. The social mob, especially in the Anglosphere, seems to show so much of this when someone gets called out for a "transgression" and it's that mob that pushes for the transgressor to lose a job or be de-platformed etc, and not necessarily the government/state that implements that punishment.

I'm also willing to consider that as a Gen X I think too much.

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NEW 🇪🇸 Barcelona #Bitcoin  street art 👀

This is how I think about political ideology now.

I’m done expecting growth from someone who has no desire to grow..

expecting from others isn’t it

life is better when you expect nothing

and where u can spend ! after that

or hodl2heaven

He looks like a perpetual college student to me.

sam now has more time to focus on his mission to scan the eyeballs of every person on the planet

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝

And #Bitcoin fixes this ⏰

Weed and shake shack is dangerously expensive.