Short of it is I brought up how the algos on social media are designed to manipulate us, told it was a conspiracy theory, and proceeded to give them a 5-min monologue on the history of government propaganda and surveillance while pretty much everyone looked at me like I was a weirdo.
Ohhhh, I’ve seen this one. Not as good as the Weimar Republic version, but we’re still only part way through.
“That’s conspiracy theory talk…”
Personal trigger for me when citing well-documented war crimes by the state.
This is actually the most preferred way imho.
Permies are the only subset of people that I’ve been able to consistently orangepill.
Meh, I still think a radical 3% is better than 51% of moderates.
Thank you all for helping me keep some sense of reality and that I’m not completely insane.
Went to a normie dinner party tonight and people were looking at me like I was batshit crazy, and I was still just in the shallow end warming up.
Some people never have their values challenged in any meaningful way nor actually look at them with a critical lens and it shows.
I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it until people get it:
I HAVE NO INTEREST IN GETTING NORMAL PEOPLE TO USE BITCOIN AND NOSTR
I am only interested in getting those who demand self-sovereignty for themselves, and are unequivocally dedicated towards building a future where everyone owns their own data, and no one can cancel them or steal it away from them.
Gm,
Gonna be a nice weekend.
Had something similar happen with a puppy I found rummage through our garbage all stinky and emaciated. She’s happy and healthy now, but I guess she’s just our puppy now.
I’m out here trying to zap some of y’all and some of you don’t have wallets yet.
Y’all are missing out on one of the most fun parts of Nostr.
Marx’s great mistake was thinking that capitalism (as in free market exchange) was responsible for the inherent contradictions in the system of exchange and not seeing how dirigisme (your vocabulary word of the day) was the real culprit.
The creative destruction of capitalism, as Weber pointed out, is evolutionary. With any degree of state intervention, this evolution of capitalism devolves into a form of economic eugenics designed to create an economic depend on the state for all things.
It is under appreciated just how much this augments the entire market structure when you know big daddy government will buy your shitty investment property—it fucks up the entire market structure.
Look, it’s pretty simple:
If the state can identify you, it can target and kill you.
Doesn’t matter why, it just can.
There is a reason Satoshi was anonymous and why bitcoin isn’t an LLC.
That’s because if you don’t have a physical space or identity to be located, the state can’t physically or economically harm you. With cryptography, you actually have a shot at hiding from the state, and building things that they cannot stop.
Elon is a handmaiden of the deep state, and if you think he’s a freedom fighter for good; I’ve got some BCH to sell you that’s actually real bitcoin.
This is fake. There’s no way a democrat ad would have a white male front and center.
It’s the power of the panopticon and what it means to live under constant surveillance.
The more I think about Nostr the more it blows my mind.
I can just say whatever crazy shit I want and there’s like no guardrails or mods—it’s just out there, and people will actually see it.
No one appreciates just how powerful this is, how important it is, monumental even.
It creates a totally new possibility for the social web, which is really something else entirely. It’s the possibility of a new world in which people own their data; their information. No longer to be exploited, or owned, people can really say whatever they want.
And that is truly extraordinary.