Yeah you're right, there are trade-offs between being a part of the ingroup and the outgroup and historically of course people have always chosen, when they had the choice, being a part of the ingroup, for the security. Unfortunately it's this same choice that has led to so much power being accumulated in the state through all its various institutions and their interconnected nature, over time.

We're at a unique moment in time where technology and education allow us to make a different choice, while mitigating the downsides, but it's still a very treacherous path, no doubt.

You're touching on a lot of stuff that I've been giving a lot of thought to recently, as I think a lot of Bitcoiners should be doing. The most important part, that you left open at the end of your note there which was a nice touch, is to overcome one's conditioning to think of one's self as a citizen of a nation. Everyone around the world is force-fed propaganda from birth about the greatness of "their" nation, and just sort of sleepwalk through their whole lives without questioning it in the slightest. Even as someone with a Canadian passport, I can admit to having drunk the koolaid in my impressionable youth. That said, I also have to admit that it's a lot easier to break free of said conditioning when you grow up in a colony without any strong culture, as opposed to a power centre at the heart of a dominant empire. I also haven't lived there in 10+ years which is another factor that works against the average person; hard to break free when you're surrounded and saturated with a perspective that presents itself as both de facto reality and destiny.

Once you get past that though, there are still many major problems that need to be sorted out, for example I don't agree that anything meaningfully revolutionary can be achieved online except what were doing here, which is just the very basic of preambles of theory. But in any case, you have to start somewhere, and like I said, getting in the headspace of being free of dependence from the concept of "the state" or "the nation" is a very important first step.

Just for that I hope Satan sends us to $85k on Monday

never forget, eyes on the prize, this isn't a fucking game

salute! (I'm a dumbass and don't know how to use emojis on a desktop)

Took the purple pill; next up, wash it down with the orange one and your journey toward discovery of their revolutionary potential begins.

Serious? Tuvok is a P.I.M.P.

Also, curious what the little diamond "proof of work" icon is on this post. I assume it's related to my first statement.

Trudeau's political career is DOA for this election cycle, even if current polling is slightly off. He has completely failed to advance any policy and has overseen Canada's increasingly fast descent into the lowest levels of irrelevancy (whereas we had been floating at the upper levels for most of the 20th century). This is his last gasp at leaving a legislative legacy, though in his own entitlement-addled mind, he probably believes he will survive the next election and can muddle through another few decades of trading against Canada to gain political capital for himself. In reality he has no mandate, he has no legacy, but in the current global political climate it's clear that the projection of delusions and distortion of facts can yield powerful results, so he has nothing to lose by indulging in his own fantasies.

That said, when he does get voted out, he will be replaced by a somehow even more corrupt and incompetent administration who within a decade or so will be replaced once again by the Liberal party, possibly with Trudeau still at the helm.

Seriously. When did people become so completely cucked by content middlemen that there are now middlemen capitalising on managing subscriptions to content middlemen?

Bitcoin and Bittorrent and mucho co-sympatico.

Preach sister! lol

ITT: confusion between "orange man bad" and "orange coin good"

A scam that breeds scams and a scammer mentality, and projects that mentality onto everyone who comes into contact with it.

Absolutely fucking diabolical.

the zoomers and terminally online et al that conflate "crypto bros" with Bitcoiners are annoying, which I believe is what is happening here (?), but everyone will come to their own understanding of the difference eventually.

Fake British? Consistently using the King's English and a quotation from The Times in the genesis block says real British to me, but it could just be an attempt to throw people off his scent.

Bad day for news of political dissidents being murdered by dictators through their repressive state apparatus, good day to remember that this is not a fucking game, Bitcoin is freedom, and not a stupid scheme to raise your fiat balance.

Of course we all pray that shit never goes completely off the rails, but the only guaranteed way to secure your future is by taking that shit into your own hands by putting in the work.

Don't trust anyone, test and verify, value for value.

RIP to all martyrs, but you don't have to be one if you choose not to be.

holy shit dude you read my mind, living up to your handle!

my very first thought while watching this was "damn, poppin' some caps and walking around Amsterdam with this filter on would be so fuckin' epic!"

unlikely that Cramer has seen his peen in the 21st century

There's no basis for a discussion in good faith with anyone who calls Tucker Carlson a journalist and characterises him as "constructive"

Good day sir.

They don't call him Tuck the cuck for nothing; the very premise of the interview is a kind of cultural and intellectual cuckoldry.

I'm curious what an ODELL workday looks like...

Not like super granular detail, but just like the broad strokes, for inspiration hehe