As a matter of fact, whose BTC was it to begin with? How did the German government get it in the first place?
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The German state seized that BTC with the taxes it steals from German citizens.
From the very first note of mine, to which you initially replied:
"So far, he gets the benefit of the doubt from me because you can't clean up a place like el Salvador with an immaculate libertarian, pro-freedom program. It's just not possible."
That's one of the most fucked up things I've ever read from a modern politician. Did he say that verbatim? What a psychopath if he did.
So allow me to remit you to the initial post, in which nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhszynhwden5te0dehhxarj9ek82tntv5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wfcxcetzwvhxxmmd9uq3kamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2a30qyvhwumn8ghj7ur4vfkxjcewwfjkccted9hxwtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfnj7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytcqypec76gcftk6vagq9d58leru360z77c6ye7kly29kyvnxyhe0svw7ap0pad here literally says "He is so different than the others!", which prompted my remarks about how he is not, really. Just like you just said.
I am completely honest: I have not experienced what you describe, ever. I have internal dialogues, I think and reflect a lot. But those are not directed to "something", it's just me thinking.
In any case, in practical terms, you seem to have a pantheist conception of the universe, and what you describe is completely removed from the common religious practice that people deal with on a daily basis, especially the believers of the Abrahamic religions with their books and their personal/tribal god(s).
Please do not move the goalposts. See the exact phrase to which I replied:
"So you never mentally ask anything for answers or help?"
"Anything" to which you address, mentally or otherwise, your requests or wishes must necessarily be an "entity".
As in an entity somehow existing outside of the laws of physics, yet capable of influencing the universe? No, never.
He did not send a warning about bribes and corruption.
He said he has files on people who incurred in those, and he keeps the files to be used as a blackmail tool to make them do whatever he dictates, for his political convenience. In this case, a a typical Latin American socialist populist dictator measure, namely price controls on foodstuffs. So crime is OK and is not prosecuted, unless it is politically convenient for the Leader.
His opinion is what constitutes "price gouging". There are laws against that. And if there aren't any and he feels price gouging is a problem that he needs to solve, then he should legislate for it. Stating clearly the criteria. If you watch his video, he basically is saying that he is the one who determines what is "reasonable" in terms of price increases and profits. So, yes, his opinion, purely. Again, typical dictator behavior.
You would have a point if I had ever in my whole life once said that the US, or any Western nation, are "ideal" or "beacons" of anything.
As a matter of fact, over here on Nostr one of my usual riffs is that the post-WW2 West is basically a Corporatist State regime, with a variety of cosmetic options subject to the specific historical paths of each country (which is why we cannot simply call it what a Corporatist State is, by definition, i.e., fascism).
The former Soviet bloc, being less developed and having a longer history of openly tyrannical regimes, has become a less subtle and more crude version of the same.
So has China finally given in to what the European fascists and "social democrats" recognized one hundred years ago: that the planning is better left to the private sector, and the State can simply "direct" and dictate what "the greater good" is, exactly as we do in the West, but with fewer social constraints on their esthetics of power, since they are still a nominally communist regime with no need for "democracy".
So yes, I can hold Bukele to the same standard I hold the West and anybody else, and call a spade a spade, and a socialist dictator a socialist dictator.
2,800 sats daily to me is like saying 1 million xD
Good thought, but this presumes believing in the first place, and disbelieving as a reaction. Most of the atheists I know, like myself, have never believed. And those rare ones I've found who "lost the faith", have never really, and sooner or later go back to it formally.
Irrelevant. Politically speaking, I'm an ultra-minority among my fellow nationals.
I think it's "They want plays about themselves, not mythological subjects."
This is not a "government", it's one guy who says he is the will of the people, that he knows better and that he has all the power to make arbitrary decisions. There are no rules to which he subjects himself. If price gouging is a crime, the what, how and why must be spelled out in a law and not depend on the guy's personal opinion that day.
If, as he says in his latest video threatening traders, "he has the files" collecting a long list of crimes he says the traders have committed, from bribery of customs officials to tax evasion, his duty is not to keep personal folders to be used as blackmail, but to prosecute them and give them a fair trial, according to the laws and the rule of law.
I'm not even saying the supposed "crimes", like the fictitious crime of "tax evasion", should be such. What I'm saying is there are laws and rules, and Bukele is subject to them first and foremost. Otherwise, he's just another dictator. And to top it up, just as I originally said, he seems to be of the socialist variety, given what he uses his dictatorial powers for.
Today you have an example of what's probably his first actual policy: price controls for foodstuffs, else the government will dust the folders it keeps of traders and prosecute them for unrelated causes. Pure mafia.
There is a certain veer to the right broadly speaking, fueled by discontentment over uncontrolled immigration and the (correct) perception that it is in fact encouraged and sustained by the economic and political status quo.
The problem is that these nationalist populists are as socialist as the status quo, so they fail to address the real root cause: the gigantic, irrational, morally corrupt and economically unsustainable "welfare state".
The status quo brings in millions of unqualified "labor" from third world countries as a short term fix to keep the music going, mainly and foremost, because that's exactly what the voters demand. The right wing doesn't even recognize this, so their recipe for more welfare, without the immigration, is even more of a fantasy than the current fiction. In fact, blaming the immigrants instead of the State, as a distraction, is wrong and immoral to a large extent.
Europeans are sick and tired of the demographic invasion, that's true, but they are also morally bankrupt and incapable of taking responsibility for themselves. That is the result of seven or eight decades of socialism, and it's probably inevitable. But because it's not a sudden change from being rich to being miserable, it's hard to harness social discontent in a politically productive way that can bring true change.
Like Argentina, it would take a lot more than the current pain before people are willing to address the root cause. And even then, the chances to succeed will be extremely low.