“Moreover, psychopaths have devised alternative methods to manipulate the political landscape from behind the scenes. By infiltrating the corporate world and financial institutions, they exert influence over politicians through covert means, such as buying off candidates or handpicking those with sociopathic, narcissistic, or psychopathic traits for political office. This form of control undermines democratic institutions, rendering them impotent in the face of ruthless, self-serving manipulation”
An update to the cycling Substack
https://principledbicycling.substack.com/p/traffic-lights-what-are-they-good
As nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m points out, “Bitcoin is for the remnant.”
And as others like to say, “you get Bitcoin at the price you deserve.”
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“But, well… look. Back when he started mocking Bitcoin, one Bitcoin cost around $6. Now, it costs $50,000.
I do not know if Gerard ever hedged his criticism with investment in case he was wrong, and perhaps if not he would say that standing on principle was more valuable than money. All I know is that if he had hedged just a bit as he jumped on the cutting edge of criticism of an emerging technology, he could have written his later anti-crypto books while living in luxury in early retirement.”
-Tracing Woodgrains on David Gerard’s long battle bemoaning Bitcoin.
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true nostr:note1skqgxs6py0cp8wqw0fx0wvgxwycpjl9gm45me04gms4jxj3upwhsen46rm
Ever wonder WTf happened to Wikipedia? Ever wonder why so many pages became gate kept to hold an ideology-captured narrative?
Much of that lies in WikiKarens such as David Gerard.
David Gerard, author of “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” is known (and often ignored) in the Bitcoin community for his obsessive hatred for everything based including Bitcoin, which he often conflates with “crypto.”
He’s also no fan of Nostr whining that “it requires you to sort out a cryptographic key pair before you can login,” instead endorsing Mastodon.
Ultimately Gerard held control for years over Wikipedia turning it into his own personal insane asylum. He bullied other editors, helped egg the doxxing of Scott Alexander among many things.
Substack writer Tracing Woodgrains dug into the story.
“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. They are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.”
-H.L. Mencken
nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u that place is phenomenal!
Milei is reading Sowell 
Can relate 