I've answered both claims already.

I can hate both military alliance expansions and countries starting wars because of military alliances expansions.

I can hate both Russia invading Ukraine and Ukraine forbidding the language of Russia.

+1

Antifascists from UA tell that Nazis are indeed the problem there, but Russian discourse has stretched it a lot wider than it actually is. Also, you're fully correct that Russia has Nazis as well, with whom Russian government OFFICIALLY COOPERATES. So nazis was never–ever the honest reason, tho Russian propaganda uses it as the main.

ah, yes, my favorite labeling argument: "you are against Republicans? you must be Democrat!". I can hate both war and banning languages.

Once again, I am an anarchist — thus, I think that falling governments is a GOOD thing. If Russia would fall because of the NATO expansion, it would be good — and it's weird we don't agree on that.

Yet, as I said, while NATO expansion problem is of course bad, and valid, and etc-etc, and it has pressured Russia indeed, still, Rusdia was far away from anywhere close to the "breaking point" where only invading another country would save it.

Also, Ukraine is not a "no man's land" that could be taken over for political games of the governments, just like taxes may not be stolen for funding wars. Or may they? Is it valid for US to force you paying taxes, if it's because of some provocation? ◉_◉

You should also understand, that every country, unfortunately, has nazi scum — including Russia, which actually may have it even more — yet that alone does not justify war military invasion! If it does, then any government war is justified, because governments always tell you they were provoked by the bad guys, don't they?

Another claim is about US sourcing Ukrainian nazis. I'm happy you dropped the allegations you made, but couldn't source the last time — about Ukraine bombing Russia first. I will ask *exactly the same question* this time: please /cite/, where it is said anything about «Obama funding the nazis», because I failed to find that in your sources myself. Prove-it-or-drop-it.

The only source supporting that, your very main source, is the podcast [11a] — I don't really trust people talking about political "secret happenings" without better sources than their opinions lol. If there are sources they're using, cite them, not the podcast! The source [12b] — your "clear FBI evidence!" — tells abou 4 US neonazis being trained by Ukraine neonazis. Third source [12a] confirms that: “… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia”. What's so weird about scum from US learning from scum from Ukraine, and where is the funding & Obama here?

I try to argue in a good faith, but it really feels you don't even read ling you're citing, if they seem to even closely support something you *want* to believe. Just like with the vaccines...

last time I've answered you a lot more than calling you a Russian puppet, remember?

«The "pressures and overtures of the west/us had pushed the Russian state to it's breaking point" claim is not only wildly inaccurate — are we really to believe this neo liberal, white supremacist behemoth was teetering on the edge of collapse, any more so than it was in 1917 or 1991, & that invading a neighboring state would somehow save it from certain death? — for those who believe in anti-state politics, it should be a GOOD thing. Only from the perspective of the Russian government & its patrons does this make any sense. That's why you got called Russian puppet by another user», I said.

ah, I love freedom of speech under democratic capitalism

Why #Monero, besides inability of governments or organizations to track and potentially target transactions or users? (And why other coins, if there's Monero?)

Monero has:

· no CEO

· no vulnerable corporate presence, anonymous core developers not subject to US/EU regulatory pressure or intimidation

· not overly-concerned with compliance, privacy is prioritized in every consideration regardless of the consequences

· fully private at protocol level (no "optional privacy"), all transactions look the same, transparency is strictly opt-in

· auto-shielded IP addresses

· uses established, well-understood, battle-tested and thus reliable cryptography (as may be opposed to novel, experimental, much less understood and thus potentially flawed cryptography of some newer coins)

· modular approach to privacy = no single point of failure

· proven track record, 10+ years of sustained darknet usage with 0–1 users traced, has notably foiled the FBI, Europol & the IRS

· no suspected backdoors

· no dev tax i.e. "founder's reward/community development fund", conditional donation-based dev funding gives the community more leverage and keeps devs disciplined

·wasn't designed to systematically enrich founders, wasn't pre-mined, whales have either mined or bought their coins like everybody else

· not transitioning to Proof-of-Stake. PoS is much more environmentally friendly, yet PoW still has a proven 10+ year track record while consumer-grade CPU mining remains the most anonymous, most permissionless way of acquiring coins

· ASIC resistance (greater hash rate decentralization because of ineffectiveness of pool mining)

· tail emission

· dynamic blocksize

· low inflation

· ever-increasing real-world adoption, actually displacing even more popular crypto (BTC, USDt, ETH) in OPSEC-critical markets, endorsed by the DNM Bible

· growing criminal adoption = infinitely more street cred + law enforcement/regulator hostility = additional battle-hardening

· has a good reputation, widely admired and respected by non-hodlers, has enough traction, activism, enthusiasm

· no trademark restrictions, no pandering to the Establishment, has steadfastly remained true to crypto's anti-authoritarian free market cypherpunk ideals

· one of the most successful Esperanto agitation

now this is not anti-btc or anti-usdt, this is just and only a list of some cool strengths xmr has. I think that the point of cryptographic resistance lies in the «crypto vs banks», not «my-favorite-coin vs banks and shitcoins».

we all should invest in #bitcoin, purchase anonymously with #monero, use smart contracts based on #etherium, drop down fees by #litecoin, stay safe from price crashes in #usdt, lower carbon emissions with #solana, invest in agorism with #ripple, share small support every day using #sats, and even make such great things possible as decentralized end-to-end encrypted lightning-fast ridiculously cheap cloud drive with #storj* or canceling Sybil attack possibility in decentralized chats with #oxen* (future session tokens).

in other words, unionize cryptoanarchists, don't divide them. there is no "best" coin in the center — decentralize the decentralized currency sentiments.

just don't buy #HAWKTUAH.

*this is not #sponsored, I just love to yap about decentralized apps

#crypto #cryptocurrency #btc #xmr #opinion

one of the reasons why #Session — the app that cares not only about hiding data, but about hiding ALL of the meta-data as well. nostr:note1qqqy29072nvdvlqvx58wusuzd3uqekrtm74d8pprfqackeur78nqjzyta3

threema is centralized, closed source (server) and not equally accessible for not-that-rich :(

session, simplex, briar >>> threema

plain/clean Firefox is not far from any other spying browser, if you don't turn off a lot of things manually. Use LibreWolf — it's literally the Firefox with all things that should be turned off — turned off for you

YouTube on my Smart TV is now showing me 50 SECONDS UNSKIPPABLE ADS!

I fucking hate #google

https://nostrcheck.me/media/5c8a576582b8aba3793f2abc5f2a52c1325a900a0a94be0f1cbcc70f4fc5edee/aa67723183b2088cdaf966bbf6c4a34af6951969ebd1618f9244a3ddbfcb8d27.webp

you think Jack saying "the farther you move away from nature, the more you suffer" meant not nature-nature but /man's nature/?

nostr:npub1cp2rxt39auw2plhte4vqvgnp80kcrlkrreql2te85ezvny7dv7hqjxqmjn by far the bes subscribe on nostr / с отрывом лучшая подписка в ностр

argumentum ad naturam — a rhetorical technique for presenting / proposing that "the more natural something is the better".

yet, many phenomena present in nature are considered undesirable even by supporters of this argument, such as diseases, parasitism, famine, natural selection, natural disasters. at the same time, many phenomena absent from nature bring benefits, such as medicine, health care, support for the elderly and disabled, agriculture, plant selection.

nature & ecology is important for suffering less — but just as medicine, agriculture & mutual aid. wild animals getting eaten alive don't seem to suffer less than domesticated.

>starting an argument first

>"lmao MONERO DUMBFUCK lmao GENDER EQUALITY SUPPORTER I don't wanna waste my time on you!"

great discussion.

please clarify: is being gay or being against fascism in your opinion political?

right now there have been no bad actions from the Tor project, nor Tor is having any political agenda. you're the one digging what devs' do outside of work (I'm not sure workers' bio is related to work more than workers' clothes).

the claim about Tor being compromised is not related to the wokeness theme — it's hilarious to say Tor's compromised because the devs use pronouns. shortly put, there's a lot of rumours: about Session being compromised, SimpleX, Bitcoin, I2P, Tails — basically anything actually private will have such rumours. so IMHO rumors tell too little about actual situation.

I feel same vibes with "project XXX has mostly just white cis hetero men working there!!". why do you care people being gay or against fascism, bro, kinda sus.

андроиды наверное и не мечтали об электроовцах

oh is it? sheet, thanks for the info! seems.like the problem is on my side

hahahahahahahaha based

“The premise is that the ones behind the cameras will have the best interests of the people at heart.” — Roland van der Sluijs