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Texas has lots of liberal big cities, and will turn blue as a so called "electorate" fairly soon. This happened with formerly very conservative Colorado and New Mexico and is also now happening in in real time in Arizona. Sorry to burst your bubble. Not many truly safe haven states left. Maybe Wyoming, North Dakota, or Idaho but the socialist cancer grows there too. It is everywhere and growing, no state can save you. None. When people can simply vote themselves a share of the public purse ("democracy"), and the money is corrupt, freedom is doomed. The Republic has ended. Plan accordingly.
Without counterfeit central banking, the gobbmint would have to raise taxes or cut spending. Inflation amounts to a silent time theft and tax. It is evil - justified via inane arguments and brainwashing. No coincidence the income tax and Fed were enacted the same year. Central banking, one of the 10 tenets of Marxism, needs to be abolished.
Your economic overlords tell you money printing of 2% is a "reasonable level". They then average 3 or 4 times that. When it comes to counterfeiting, there simply is no reasonable level.
As long as legal tender laws exist and are enforced, they can print (hence the laws). After the debt spiral goes into hyperinflation mode, eventually people will save/trade with something else, the gray market will thrive, and the criminal class (government) will be forced to try the same age old tricks again with a new or restructured monopoly currency.
Chancellor on the brink . . .
I got shellacked in the 2000 tech bust. Later, having thought I learned that lesson, sold some of the best network effect companies for no other reason than to take "profits"; and in so doing left life-changing millions on the table in subsequent runups (MSFT, AMZN). By the time the GFC rolled around, I had red-pilled myself on the unbelievable corruption of the world's fiat monetary system. Back then it wasn't as widely understood as it is today (thanks to Bitcoin). Started slowly stacking gold/silver and not worrying about price. I didn't get hurt in the GFC (other than real estate value decline by 40%) and won't get hurt in the coming monetary reset.
I sleep well with neutral assets like Bitcoin that have no captured, corrupted, regulated, or greedy rug-pulling bankster counterparty. Highly recommended for mental well being as the sovereign debt crisis starts to get real and the establishment starts shrieking that something must be done (to stoke more inflation).
We are ready. Do your worst.
Yep. Multisig has a place, but generally not for the solo hodler. And still no response to my real question below:
State regulated counterparties (banks and their ilk) will rug you 100% of the time if asked to by the state. I knew this long before Bitcoin. If you don't hold it you are a fool.
"I have ever thought that the most calamitous of evils is a bad government, but I have been convinced that a worse one is a bad constitution, and that the worst of all is private folly." --Ben Franklin
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Decent and balanced take, thanks . . . but all the nation state and SBR simping has me questioning whether our fellow bitcoin plebs (since 2012) really do share the ethos of SEPARATING money and state. Why do we want them bolstering their balance sheets? More war funding? I get the "Bitcoin is for enemies" and all, but the SBR bag pumping is making me fucking nauseous.
OK "balanced state" Jon who can't name a balanced state. 👍
Never said I didn't engage with the state . . . am very involved in fighting the criminal element where I can on their turf, as well as mine (even though there is no balance as you put it). but you also didn't answer my question.
Just curious: please name a "balanced state" (not the American colonies or late 19th century US, or the Roman Republic, but today).
Or maybe it's the definition of what you mean by 'balanced'. At what percent of forcible confiscation of your labor (let alone confiscation of other inherent rights like privacy and speech) to support immoral wars and grift are you balanced? 5%, 20%, 50%, 70%? At what point are you more slave than free? What ever happened to voluntary state militias for defense and private charity?
As George Washington said in his farewell address: government is force.
The only way for most people to "balance" it is to use decentralized tools or gray/black markets that the state by its very controlling definition hates. I think statists generally refer to these tools as creating a state of "anarchy" to be feared. Sadly, in an era where only 1 or 2 out of 435 "representatives" are "balanced" in the sense of respecting my freedom and property (to use the US government leviathan as example), agorism is the only method most people can resort to in order to reign in the predations of the state; and the resistance method has been quite effective down through the centuries.
I have never had a single voluntary (non-coercive) interaction with the state. As more people opt out, the government must change (Bitcoin being just one recent example).
Sincerely,
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4) Real bitcoiners who don't want the time-thieving state to be empowered any more than it already is.
Under socialism and fiat money, one of the 10 tenets of communism.
