There is something that really worries me about the current young libertarians that I see sprout all over the Western Hemisphere.

On one hand, it obviously gives me hope to see a new(er) generation. On the other, I think they are growing up very one-sidedly anti-woke and anti-left.

It makes sense, since the current status quo in our Western Corporatist Regimes has found in leftist rethoric and to a large degree leftist policies a very effective dress under which it can hide its Corporatist core.

But allow me to remind you that before the wokes, there were the Evangelicals, which sprouted from Reagan's "Revolution". I can place the beginning of the current "culture wars" used by the Uniparty in the US to cover up its malfeasance and the relentless progress towards an overtly totalitarian regime.

My point being, one day, as suddenly as Dubya Bush and his Born Again Halliburtonites disappeared, the Obama cult of islamomarxist tranny vaccinators will simply be discarded by the Uniparty, and we'll go full swing back to "the right".

And I don't know if this younger generation of nominal libertarians are ready to be as harsh with those who will at the core be advancing the exact same agenda, but dress "modestly" while attending Sunday school.

Well, in a still nominally communist country like China the esthetics of power allow the Party to simply seize the means of production and "directly manage" a company as a way to achieve the Party's ideological goals. In a country like the US, which is a nominal democracy (but a Corporatist State regime in nature) the Party has to use indirect but equally powerful ways to do the same. But generally speaking, it will be content with "directing" the economy and letting the planning and managing to the private sector. The true power of the Corporatist State, like the 1920's fascists learnt, is that it hers to dictate what "the social/common/greater/ higher good" is. That is, where is the ideological line which, should the private sector dare paint outside of it, unleashes the crude coercion apparatus.

The grift is real.

Oh, absolutely. He never did. My beef is not with Bukele (other than the fact he's a conservative authoritarian), but with all the "libertarians" who for some reason insist Bukele is one of them. That includes perhaps most of all bitcoiners, who even those who reject the label, are factual libertarians.

Wait until I tell you some some sushi restaurants IN JAPAN use mayo on their aburi sushi (torched sushi).

And Bukele doesn't have any policies, that's the thing. This is basically one of the first times he seems to be about to act politically, and he chiose to do this.

His excuse until now is that he's been busy with the gangs, which I myself have publicly said here was a valid reason... with an expiry date. I have given him a pass all along and said that I hoped he would turn out OK. I didn't have a prejudice against him and I couldn't care less about the allegations that the Western media make about him.

In the meantime, every time he has spoken about his social outlook, it's been always clear he's just a run of the mill authoritarian conservative. Now he has decided to start acting like one too, so that's when I stop giving him the benefit of the doubt.

There's this video from a highly reputed Spanish libertarian professor/media guy (there are maybe only a couple in the whole country, really), about this last incident:

https://youtu.be/77Rm8QXpfEw

Dude, seriously. I have never paid more than 3% on Bisq. I have been able to catch several discounted trades under market price in fact. There's no need to give money or sats away to anybody xD

It's true-tho

But this company used to be the darling of the Chinese economy, until the Party decided to disappear its CEO for three months after he made a mild critique of the Chinese banking system and government, right when the company was about to go public, which then the government forbid. He lost control of the company de facto and has been mainly overseas ever since then. To no avail because last year he was finally made to step down anyway.

No, but we don't need to stop saying he is.

No you can't, that's what I'm saying. When I input the address I wanted to use, they prompted me with some bullshit about Swiss regulations and having to sign a decalaration. They don't even provide any sort of explanation about how you're supposed to sign it (if you're an idiot who is willing to do such a stupid thing). All they say is "If you don't want to sign, use our wallet". So I don't use their wallet, or their app.

Based on what I've seen, the premiums people expect on that platform are even stupider than on Bisq, and any potential savings based on batched transactions are lost, and probably by a large margin.

On Bisq a marker maker pays only one of four transactions involved in a trade. The taker pays for the other 3. That usually works out to be 6-7k sats for a taker.

And still, even on days like today which I am skipping because I consider the sellers are being unreasonable, I could buy as much BTC as I could for as little as a 5% premium, while the average on Peach is closer to 10% over market.

So not only the savings would be lost, but I would be losing big time buying there, in fact.

It's not fake. It's been reported by Spanish speaking independent people I know and fully trust.

And I can also say I've been warning about Bukele for a long while now. I speak Spanish and get the full meaning of all he says, and access to much more stuff than is reported to US-centric audiences.

I tried to use Peach. Gave up the minute they basically force you to use their wallet with some stupid nonsense about having to "sign" a declaration stating that I'm the owner of the address I was using. They can fuck right off.

We're having one of those days at the P2P exchanges where sellers are completely delusional about the premiums they can get. Which, with a high degree of certainty based on pure anecdotal observation these past few years, means that the rebound is imminent.

You don't need to be a scholar to see how the political system works both in "representative democracy" regimes and even worse in others.

It's evident and transparent, in large measure because the corrupt elites have become so powerful and emboldened that they hardly even care to hide anymore, even in our "democracies".

People are giving you the explanation: that the political system self-selects for corrupt people who serve the same masters. There is no way in unless you do, and if you somehow manage to do it, then you have to fight everybody else. So the corruption self-perpetuates.

You just don't like the explanation and ask people to give you another one, but there isn't.

Fuckin disgusting. Who paid for this piece of propaganda shit?

What does that even mean?

Ah, so basically the German state stole that BTC using tax money stolen from the German people. And now they are giving both away to Blackrock. All in order, nothing to see.