It's time to wake up...

The political “Right” & “Left” in America are both ideologically inconsistent and morally bankrupt.

The “Conservatives” are not conservatives.

The “Liberals” are not liberal.

They are all charlatans and profiteers; propagandists all feeding the same beast.

One side vocally supports War_A, and calls for peace in War_B.

The other side vocally supports War_B, and calls for peace in War_A.

Each side claims the other side is evil. Each team blames the other for anything bad that happens, and takes the credit for anything good that happens. Around and around we go, the slow degradation of our society measured in election cycles.

But it doesn't matter which party is in power, because nothing ever changes. Not really.

There is no red.

There is no blue.

There is the State.

And there is you.

The only constant is war.

Forever Wars made possibly by a broken monetary system that makes it extremely profitable for the Anointed.

Our elected political actors create cover for the unelected class of bureaucrats who float effortlessly through the revolving door between government agencies, Wall Street, and defense companies.

The people are kept distracted with ideological outrage porn and manufactured crises.

We are shown "problems" and given "solutions," but none of their solutions ever solve anything; they just create more problems. They are naught but brightly-colored bandaids meant to distract us from the fact that there is a deep cancer metastasizing ever more rapidly.

No one in power has any desire to cure the disease, they only treat the symptoms. Why? Because they feed on the disease; they cannot exist without it.

Nihilism creeps in as people start to realize that the partisan bread they're fed at the political circus is rotten.

Some dig their heels in deeper, desperate to believe that this contrived charade is meaningful. After all, the rotten lies are still easier to stomach than the cold, hard truth. These people are lost.

But all is not lost. Not everyone is too far gone.

Slowly but surely, more people start to wake up. And when they open their eyes, they begin to search for real answers. They realize the cancer exists, and they want to find a cure.

But first the cancer must be diagnosed. What is the real disease that plagues us?

The answer is simple: our money is broken.

Your time and energy are being systematically stolen from you by a system that exists to benefit those closest to the creation of new money.

When money breaks, everything else breaks with it.

You know this on a deep level, even if you have not fully acknowledged it yet. You can feel it.

The only solution is to fix our broken money. Everything else is a distraction.

But this solution does not come from the top down (it can't). It must come from the bottom up. It must start with you.

You can make the choice to opt out of this broken system, to begin starving the disease by defunding the system that allows it to propagate.

There is only one way to do this: save the value of your time and energy in Bitcoin.

You may think this answer reductionist, but I challenge you to really think about it. Take the time to study Bitcoin. Take the time to study our broken monetary system.

Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution, a revolt without violence.

Bitcoin is a choice, but it is up to you to make it.

Your analogies sound like the European way of voting. You are describing a democracy, a very evil form of voting.

In a limited government constitutional republic, what are United States will become again, it doesn’t matter how many people vote, you can’t take rights away.

Currency devaluation impacts those without access to cheap credit hardest, notably in Egypt, where the less wealthy see their purchasing power and savings diminish, unlike the wealthy who can hedge or profit through foreign accounts or loans. #CurrencyDevaluation #EconomicInequality

I think if I could make one non-monetary change:

It would be to limit the ability to vote for less freedom by only allowing net contributors to vote.

These are the folks who most often vote against property rights and self sovereignty.

Thoughts?

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If a recession happens in an economy where most people don't work, does anyone notice?

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Sure, I am trying to tighten up the category of what I think a fascist is. Guilty as charged.

I just think when you think about fascism as an impulse or a tendency and ground it in things like a the desire for strong leadership, the fear of social chaos and disorder, the resentment of perceived enemies and outsiders, and the longing for a sense of national or ethnic identity and purpose, you can kind of make sense of the apparent contradictions in someone like Gabbard, Trump or Bannon.

Basically all intellectualism boils down to just trying to formulate better categories, ultimately.

In other words, I’m trying to set aside the idealistic frame in which most political science tries to operate and say: guys, we’ve learned a lot of about human nature and how it operates in political economies, so there might be a more useful framing for understanding the apparent ideological contradictions we see … which are only contradictions in the idealist notions of these ideologies. But not contradictions at all, if reduced to core tendencies.

What I think is when you do this simple reframing, you can see the fascist golem for what it is. I actually think we try hard not to see it, and make bad mistakes trying to categorize it, because a synthesis like this has better explanatory power, in my view.

In conclusion, to me, fascism is better understood as an impulse in people to wield permanent political and economic power, by capitalizing on cynicism of polities, and using cultural control (propaganda) and pseudo-religious mythos to contain the political conservation in a cultural envelope, that leads to extreme depoliticization of the average member of the polity.

This is why we need 2 party escrow transactions for the retail layer. I never hear anyone talking about this, but as someone who sells random stuff online from time to time, it's a real problem. No one wants to buy unless they are local & can do a face to face exchange.

#Bitcoin #Lightning #layer2 #Liquid

We need wallets with trustless escrow capabilities

MSTR

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But, you know, Jim Kramer thinks Saylor is a bufoon so . . .

How did people pay for gasoline before credit cards? Did you seriously have to go inside and pay the cashier every single time?!?

Literally me.

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