You write like a thirsty old man.

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Yeah, it's the same everywhere, even in many developing countries really. The current banking system has solved the payment "problem" very effectively.

The only use case left would be as an anonymous peer to peer payment system when (it's a when, not an if) cash is banned. Then we can talk about it again. But in any case, 99.99% of the people don't care about anonymously paying for their latte.

For every man that loves #Bitcoin  there’s a wife sick of hearing about it.

They just want to fuck kids. Let's not overthink this and compare it to sharecroppers in 1920.

You gotta have fun on Nostr and in life

I'll have to admit I've never made it through a full Star Trek Film.

Worth trying again? If so, which should I start?

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The response I see are more arm chair expert than anything believable. I don’t blame people for providing these viewpoints - many of which I am sure are accurate to some degree; I just don’t think the reality is this simple. Will study further, just not on nostr.

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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."

I mean, the context is completely different. I get it. You don't like the guy and he doesn't pass your personal standards of what constitutes a leader.

If we're going back to the oriinal post, the I agree. He is different. The difference lies in what's promoted. He's not pushing "the narrative". The western "social justice warrior" type of stuff. He's pushing the national identity of his people. Not the bullshit they press on the world through Brussels and the WEF.

But statecraft is still statecraft. You can't pretend you have law and order when you don't. If you don't have law and order, then how do you bring people to justice? You can't. That order has to be established. You do that through strength.

The founding of every nation is done through war and brutality. A nation is forged.

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.

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.

Irrelevant. Politically speaking, I'm an ultra-minority among my fellow nationals.

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.