The three main reasons we have ended up here - in financial and societal ruin:

1. A small group of people have the ability to print money

2. These same people own the media

8. Most people refusing to admit they were wrong about anything

Truly mind bending

There have been many many times in life where I simply wasn’t feeling it.

Where I didn’t feel like honoring my commitments to others or to myself.

I simply just showed up and did shit anyway.

I did things I didn’t want to do. At times I didn’t want to do them. For small amounts of money.

I did things that were painful or difficult or unpleasant and I did them without complaint.

I did these things because I knew they were necessary to get the results I was after.

Most people are not willing to do hard things and so most people get the same results.

Dear Bitcoiners on #nostr,

For some, when you see or hear someone say they are a progressive/left bitcoiner, some of you lead to attacks, questioning and probing, assuming:

“pffft that’s not possible, how stupid can you be!”

I’ve been at this for over 3 years now. What you should do is take a step back, and realize how incredible it is that a progressive probably broke ranks heavily (think Liz Warren, greenpeace, woke police etc etc) to learn about and advocate for bitcoin. That’s really cool and a hard thing to do! Tribalism is deep and can produce awful things that get in the way of independent thought, truth, and progress.

Most progressives in bitcoin are not your caricature of the modern progressive that wants big government control, censorship, against free speech, MMT, etc etc. they’re bitcoiners that advocate for social change and progress, the true essence of the word, and believe there is a role Bitcoin can play in improving the lives of everyone, especially those downtrodden by society and the government. And those of us on the left in Bitcoin are socially liberal - we’re anti-war, pro lgbtqia+, pro women and freedom, and pro people gaining true financial freedom and prosperity.

Progressive bitcoiner does not equal democrat foot-soldier

Hell, most of us are politically homeless, as are you probably.

And at the end of the day these political labels can paint a bit of a picture but are inadequate at best, harmful at worst.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#progressive #left #bitcoin

“I’m not political”

“Voting is a scam”

Allow me to be blunt here.

This most recent ECB paper made clear something many of us have known for awhile.

When the price of Bitcoin goes up regular people are going to want to kill you. The state is also going to want to kill you. They will be deeply aligned on the solution to their problem being, murdering you.

Don’t say it won’t happen. It has happened in every society on earth. It will happen.

You’re not political? Grow up Peter Pan, count chocula it’s not Halloween. Be serious. This is big boy shit.

The state is a weapon.

People are going to want to wield it against you.

What’re you gonna do about that?

“I’m not political”

Yeah well I am.

I have to be.

I want the world to reflect my values and respect my right to life liberty and property.

We have to protect ourselves from what’s coming.

And believe me when I say… it is definitely coming.

I knew I was setting myself up for that. it's just not in line with my long term fitness goals. I started running to improve my cardio/endurance for jiu jitsu. I'm at a place now that it's never an issue when I play bjj. doing an ultra isn't going to help my game much more.

This movie is too good

i find Bitcoin easier when I don't make heroes out of people

This is exactly why my response to anyone from they UK who says,

"As a Brit I don't understand why in America __________"

Is simply go fuck yourself. Especially if it is about guns, which is the number one way that phrase gets used.

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