You don’t pay taxes? I’d like to hear more about that.

I have a right to bear arms and eat a steak using a knife.

Been trying to work this one out. Been a slow day and I’m drinking 🍷

Those who “have the most powerful guns rule” now. I’m just forced under a threat of violence to fund them.

I’d prefer to not fund murderers. Wouldn’t you?

Imagine thinking that banning "ninja swords" has any effect on violence...

The governments have a monopoly on violence. If they want to tamper down on violence they should get rid of the government entirely. They have blood soaked hands while writing these pieces of legislation.

Now that the UK has banned ninja swords there will never be another murder again!!……

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I never get tired of sunsets. What an amazing gift we are given each day.

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

You know if they keep fucking around like this. Someone is going to create a new kind of weapon that is worse than guns. Just so they can protect themselves, their family, and local community. Then the UK is really going to have an interesting time on their hands.

But then only criminal ninjas will have swords...

The only thing that stops a bad ninja with a sword is s good ninja with a sword 🤡

We WILL catch this rat!

I’m in the process of learning the “climate emergency” is a psyop but let’s focus instead of the lack of principles, combined with the cognitive dissonance that must be going on behind those eyes of the chancellor.

The 🇫🇷 French Senate has approved the 2025 budget, which includes an “unproductive wealth” tax targeting assets like Bitcoin.

The tax would apply annually to unrealized gains on cryptocurrencies.

The proposal now awaits a vote in the National Assembly.

The best counter-argument to this that I’ve hears is that, in the year 2025, hardly anyone is confused about the nature of memecoins anymore. People know they are essentially buying lottery tickets when they buy a memecoin. And so long as the memecoin issuer is not hiding this fact, it should be allowed.

That may be true. People are free to gamble if they choose to. But is this something the President of the United States should be participating in? And what does he gain other than fiat? What does he lose? Is it worth it?

Trump expended nearly all of the goodwill he built up among Bitcoiners to launch this recent scam token.

He survived an assassination attempt, won the presidency, and then uses his newfound prestige to grift off of the Hobbits who supported him. The Dark Elves rejoice at this, as they can now grift off the Hobbits too. Only the Light Elves and Númenóreans (Bitcoin Maximalists) see this for what it is.

And if Trump fails to free Ross and create the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as promised, he will have no goodwill left among Bitcoiners. Yes, Kamala would have been 10,000x worse wrt Bitcoin policy, but that doesn’t make Trump’s recent actions excusable.

“Chesterton's idea was that the universe is so arranged that it is basically the Lord's own way of surprising himself. Because that's what you would do if you were God, if you really think it through. A lot of people never think this through.”

— Alan Watts, On GK Chesterton

Right. My point is that in this case the demand is caused by a lack of basic stuff: friends to talk to.