Decentralize money to reduce their power to steal.

Decentralize communication to reduce their power to lie.

Paul doesn’t think anyone zapping on #nostr is real…

Sorry y’all, you don’t exist.

The “Nothing to hide” argument regarding privacy is a fallacy that takes for granted the good intentions of those in positions of authority and power

Be careful fantasizing about or wishing for utopias. Every perfect vision of the world has trade offs.

Example: caloric abundance was seen throughout most of human history as a type of heaven (milk and honey).

Yet modern humans live in caloric abundance and suffer just as much as those living in a caloric deficit.

Humans won’t allow utopia. We’re not built for it. We’re built to suffer.

I think we are, on Christ's timeline, moving in a trajectory of freedom.

Jesus keeps giving mankind gifts that make oppression harder and harder. He gave us the printing press, the revolver, the internet. I believe, looking back, people will see 3D printed guns and Bitcoin as all part of the revolution of the internet.

We should be subject to authorities, but mankind is greedy for power. Fiat money is an invention which greedy men have used to become incredibly powerful. It is temporary, and Christ is bringing it to an end.

I think we are headed on a trajectory toward a world in which a society much like ancient Israel makes sense. No need for police. If you see someone violate the law, it's your duty (along with other witnesses) to pull out your pistol and drive them to the elders at the gates for an immediate trial and corporal sentencing. The elders will no longer spend their retirement at Hardee's complaining about the government, but will have real authority.

We happen to live under such a vile and bloated government, and this vision is so close to what the anarchists imagine, that I find then incredibly useful. I love Michael Malice, Dave Smith, and our brother, Tom Woods.

If we lived in a hyper bitcoinized world, I would probably find myself opposing anarchists, but, in the world we live in now, we are cobeligerants.

The only legitimate "tax" is a tribute paid to the governing authorities for punishing evil and rewarding good. This is less like the taxes we pay today, and more like paying for the service of civil justice.

It seems the #1 issue with people joining nostr resolves around censorship, but not in the way you'd think. A handful of Redditors said they wouldn't join nostr because nostr has or could have hate speech, pedos, etc. and you couldn't ban or moderate those users.

I get it. 99.999% of humanity doesn't approve of that content and doesn't want to be near that type of content.

I don't know if I have a good enough answer for them though. I told them that with free speech, that means all speech is allowed, which includes the good speech and the bad speech.

If assholes want to have their corner of nostr and hang out with other assholes, then so be it. The other 99.999% of humanity will hang out everywhere else with positivity and good vibes, zapping each other non-stop.

I had to pay for a large purchase in cash recently.

It felt so odd to count out a bunch of pieces of paper and trade that paper in exchange for something of actual value 😂

Why are people so quick to mock an enemy based on appearance or other, adjacent trait that is beyond their control?

If that's your go-to attack vector, you might want to reassess. Attack their values, their integrity, their actions, their intent, or their judgment instead.

Attacking things beyond their control is attacking what it means to be human. No one wants to be 80 years old. Or to be unattractive, or have a physical characteristic that draws attention or is insufficient in some way.

What purpose is served by pointing these things out that are beyond someone's ability to change?

Tax is legitimate, biblical. Money printing is definitely theft.

"Political Funny Money".

Shitcoiners will tell you that Lightning is centralized. Show them this infographic from River.

(Amethyst, Damus, and Primal are included in the social apps section 🥹)

From now on, I'm not saying "sales tax" or "property tax" in my day to day conversation. I'm saying, "sales theft" and "property theft".

Also I'll be referring to dollars "political currency units."

I'm not normalizing this abominable racket any longer. Help educate the masses.

#bitcoin    together we can win.