The US became that hegemon because of wars over gold. All any other country can really do is become the next hegemon.

You said yourself, it only takes one honest actor. There is no such thing. There are only incentives.

The incentive to acquire gold includes coercion. Rolling tanks into the city center and opening the vaults makes all the gold yours.

Literally this happened with Gaddafi.

The US may not be able to pillage a future Gaddafi but he will still be pillage-able.

One aspect of Bitcoin I like is that it is pillage-resistant. It’s literally impossible to loot it off my dead body.

a) sauce b) why are you responding to my post with that claim? c) it is possible to accept funding and not be beholden to the agenda of the funder d) I am confident in my ability to verify factual information and debunk non-factual information / identify disseminators who are not independent based on their output, I don't need secondary 'guilt by association' maybes to help e) cia is not like a private foundation, there are uniquely many arms that have no effect on each other and projects, both public and covert, that have nothing to say about the actions of each other. IOW it is important to show where the funding came from and who authorized it, if there is a trail at all.

It is a lie, but if the average person in most places was actually given the policies they believe they want, things would also get worse for them all the time.

They want the govt to give them stuff (free healthcare, education, housing, etc), this produces shortages & reduces quality & drives up other costs, they want govt to mandate higher pay & better conditions, lots of people end up out of work, so they want the govt to give them more stuff... Etc etc

nothing better to start out a morning than having a full water bottle start leaking through your backpack ☺️

have a beautiful day y’all 🧡

My experience with Epoch is from over a year ago. Mostly engaging in tolerable partisanship. They exist primarily to be against the CCP. It is refreshing to a certain audience. Spams email boxes incessantly. There is a difference among authors (C through A), and between the news-anchor style video (C+ B-), the long form interviews (B+ A-), and the investigative reports (A- A). Generally very much factual, especially compared to mainstream. Would be an example of the most extremely partisan news that could survive in an unmanipulated world, but in this one it appears as one of few that are really trying to report truth, even if slanted to the right intentionally as a counterbalance to the rest of the landscape.