Is this real life

It's time to wake up...

The political “Right” & “Left” in America are both ideologically inconsistent and morally bankrupt.

The “Conservatives” are not conservatives.

The “Liberals” are not liberal.

They are all charlatans and profiteers; propagandists all feeding the same beast.

One side vocally supports War_A, and calls for peace in War_B.

The other side vocally supports War_B, and calls for peace in War_A.

Each side claims the other side is evil. Each team blames the other for anything bad that happens, and takes the credit for anything good that happens. Around and around we go, the slow degradation of our society measured in election cycles.

But it doesn't matter which party is in power, because nothing ever changes. Not really.

There is no red.

There is no blue.

There is the State.

And there is you.

The only constant is war.

Forever Wars made possibly by a broken monetary system that makes it extremely profitable for the Anointed.

Our elected political actors create cover for the unelected class of bureaucrats who float effortlessly through the revolving door between government agencies, Wall Street, and defense companies.

The people are kept distracted with ideological outrage porn and manufactured crises.

We are shown "problems" and given "solutions," but none of their solutions ever solve anything; they just create more problems. They are naught but brightly-colored bandaids meant to distract us from the fact that there is a deep cancer metastasizing ever more rapidly.

No one in power has any desire to cure the disease, they only treat the symptoms. Why? Because they feed on the disease; they cannot exist without it.

Nihilism creeps in as people start to realize that the partisan bread they're fed at the political circus is rotten.

Some dig their heels in deeper, desperate to believe that this contrived charade is meaningful. After all, the rotten lies are still easier to stomach than the cold, hard truth. These people are lost.

But all is not lost. Not everyone is too far gone.

Slowly but surely, more people start to wake up. And when they open their eyes, they begin to search for real answers. They realize the cancer exists, and they want to find a cure.

But first the cancer must be diagnosed. What is the real disease that plagues us?

The answer is simple: our money is broken.

Your time and energy are being systematically stolen from you by a system that exists to benefit those closest to the creation of new money.

When money breaks, everything else breaks with it.

You know this on a deep level, even if you have not fully acknowledged it yet. You can feel it.

The only solution is to fix our broken money. Everything else is a distraction.

But this solution does not come from the top down (it can't). It must come from the bottom up. It must start with you.

You can make the choice to opt out of this broken system, to begin starving the disease by defunding the system that allows it to propagate.

There is only one way to do this: save the value of your time and energy in Bitcoin.

You may think this answer reductionist, but I challenge you to really think about it. Take the time to study Bitcoin. Take the time to study our broken monetary system.

Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution, a revolt without violence.

Bitcoin is a choice, but it is up to you to make it.

Ross Ulbricht.

#FreeAssangeNOW

You would think spam would be a bigger problem on Nostr, but it's totally not. Much easier to fool a centralized entity than a decentralized community. Instead of 1 heuristic, you get 100.

Decentralization generally results in better quality because there's competition.

Perhaps in the future some relays could introduce some PoW (like hashcash) before adding new notes? Would this be a great anti-spam tool as well? 🤔

A story that illustrates why I will never orange pill anyone ever again.

2015- Attempt to orange pill friend multiple times. No dice. Totally uninterested.

2019- He asks me if now is a good time to get into bitcoin. “It’s always a good time”. I set him up with a HW wallet and tell him DCA and chill.

2019- Friend calls me a few months later, he wants to put the down payment money for his house into bitcoin, but he’s nervous. I say no worries I will backstop your investment. What’re friends for?! I want you to succeed. He now has a no risk investment. Financed by me.

2020: Friend is doing well. Has been stacking hard and has 2 coins. A great stack for his income.

2021: He starts watching cringey YouTube videos about shitcoin trading. Gets into a private telegram, trades his 2 bitcoin into 4 and then gets rug pulled and loses everything.

2021: He’s near suicidal, very dark times. He doesn’t tell me anything because he knows I warned him about trading and thinks I’ll be disappointed in him. Finally he tells me. I help him get a personal loan so he can take advantage of the remainder of the bull run. He sells at 55k and manages to break even. He’s not up but he’s got his house money back.

2023: We’re out drinking with some other friends from high school. He expresses some jealousy towards me in a semi awkward fashion. “Every time I see this dude (me) I think about bitcoin.”

2024: I meet up with him so the kids can play at the park. Vibe is off. Lots of insecurity and tension. They’re going on a trip to San Diego and I ask if they might go to the zoo while there. “I can’t afford that. That’s for rich people like you”. Odd interaction, but I shake it off.

2024: A few weeks later he gets drunk and hits on my wife via text messages. She shows me immediately and I confront him. He’s like “sorry bro I was drunk I didn’t mean it”. I tell him off and make clear this is the last time we will ever speak.

No good deed goes unpunished. I could not have been nicer to this dude and more helpful along the way and he is fully consumed by envy towards me.

Unfortunate.