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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You’re still not seeing it. You are leader of country A, with a pure bitcoin standard. Every transaction is p2p. No raising of tax, therefore no government, is possible.

I am leader of country B. I have fiat money. I print fiat money to raise a military, and invade your country, killing all the men and enslaving the women and children.

Actually you could argue this is what has actually happened. The west has been better at collecting taxes from its people, therefore has had a better army, therefore uses that military strength internationally to its advantage.

So you’re not in favour of bitcoin being the universal currency then. Because if you are, how do you ensure that there is any government, if all transactions are p2p

I’m just asking how you hold the view you hold, like what are the implications of that, have you thought them through.

You claim that bitcoiners don’t need politicians or governments. So then I’m asking how you suppose this group would defend itself from groups that have politicians and governments. If you don’t have an answer you know it’s fine to just say so.

Way to not answer the question

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You're using the word "Zionist" like it's a bad thing. 😃

I’m not American or libertarian either. But if I was American I wouldn’t be shitting on the military. Do you shit on your country’s military?

You tolerate other people ten times more if you know ahead of time that you have a shared principal with them. You'll disagree around the margins but realize you're basically on the same page.

Back in like the 1950s USA, people felt that sense with their neighbors, church, and even government. They might disagree on things, and there were some shitty downsides to that (anyone not in the majority) but they were like, flag-waiving Americans. So a question is how to recreate that, and more broadly than it once was.

And ironically, as shitty as the authoritarian economic and legal situation is in many ways, people in Egypt today feel that way today. There's a substantial sense of unity or shared ideals, aside from a small percent of extremist outliers. That's true for many developing places.

One of the major strengths of the "bitcoin community" is this set of shared identity. Bitcoiners will loudly argue with each other, but they know they have at least one foundational shared agreement. That's healthy.

There were times, at like conference side-parties, where I noticed I was standing in a friendly discussion circle with like an anarcho-capialist to the literal right of me, a progressive to the literal left of me, a human rights advocate from an authoritarian state in front of me, a billionaire capitalist with pragmatic politics also in front of me, and us standing in a circle happily talking and basically friends. It's because we have at least one shared major principle that brings us there. A unifying factor for which, as we enter discussions for which we might disagree, we know we can build common ground upon.

As certain countries get hollowed out, and as neighborhoods become more remote and distinct, I continue to believe that local in-person bitcoin communities are absolutely profound. Regular meetups help exchange local fiat with bitcoin P2P, help educate people on the latest tech, help bring people from different viewpoints together, etc. Absolutely essential.

American libertarians: governments suck, they never do anything for us except take our money.

China, Russia, North Korea, Muslims: we don’t like you and want to destroy you.

American libertarians:

I really can’t understand that philosophy. It’s like you don’t think you should have anyone to represent you? So then how do any big projects get done if no one cooperates?

What browser are you using?

Don’t know the context, but saying he’s going to do something if he wins isn’t necessarily bad just because he probably won’t win right

Trump promises to stop inflation, someone please tell him how FIAT works. He really seems to have no clue about his audience 😂

😭😂

I don’t think Trump’s team realized how important this speech was.

For many people, it was their first time listening to a full speech from Trump.

This wasn’t just another speech. Sadly, his team treated it like any other speech.

Missed opportunity.

RFK seems to be the real bitcoiner

Some people stuff some bucks in his pocket, give him a few key phrases to say, and everything else is rambling.

This guy has absolutely no idea what he is talking about or who he is talking to.