Yes.

Malcom X: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.”

And we’re all irritated at claims that everything is racist. It’s super annoying. But these claims largely dilute the real issue of racism, that we prop up certain classes at the expense of others. It doesn’t matter what we say or tweet. It matters that policies are designed to shift value away from the poor and to the rich.

Absolutely. 3 million people who cannot contribute and who cannot raise their children. They’re in a system designed to keep them in. Most are there for minor offenses and drug charges. Most are victims of a financial system that left them miserable and destitute.

Use those billions to provide training, to create jobs for them, and to provide access to housing and care for their young. It’s a lot cheaper for the government to provide real social services than for it to enrich corporations at our expense.

I highly recommend Chris Hedges’ “Wages of Rebellion” if you’re interested in learning more about how the Prison-Industrial Complex is designed to serve the rich at the expense of the poor.

Ross is not in jail because what he did is immoral. He is in jail because he challenged the profitability of the prison-industrial complex which relies on the criminalization of drugs and the incarceration of millions of our poor

Criminalization of drugs is massively profitable. The wealthiest country in the world has the highest percentage of incarcerated people in the world.

3 million or so, mostly considered non-producers by the capital class, are re-sourced as laborers in the prison system. $75/day/person for the private prisons + essentially free labor allows the ruling class to turn the “unproductive” into profit.

We think we cleared ourselves of slavery, but slavery continues behind walls and behind the protection of the corporations who write self-serving laws.

It’s true. Alfred McCoy wrote a book all about it called “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.”

The woman who bought me coffee will be getting reimbursed with sats and with an hour-long earful about the shortcomings of traditional finance.

Sorry Paige- 🤷‍♂️ I don’t have any dollars

Orange pilling like a mad man today at the fiat mines.

Sounds kind of insensitive to all those bots out there. They came to Nostr, just like everybody else, in search of a decentralized platform to spam.

I agree. An initial sense of community that develops into tribalism breeds confirmation bias and inbreeding of beliefs. The tribe becomes immune to new ideas and outsiders, and a depth of understanding is never achieved.

https://chomsky.info/on-power-and-ideology/

https://www.mintpressnews.com/georgetown-langley-controversial-connection-cia/284004/

The central bank was started by bankers, using subversive politics against a public and against a government that would have never accepted a wolf if not shod in sheeps’ clothing

FOX, MSNBC, CBS, CNN are the entertainment industry.

The corporations that own them profit from your fear, and depend on redirecting your attention from issues that serve the establishment, to issues that have a negligible impact on their pocketbooks

I would really like for Greenpeace to some day have a BTC address on their website.

I would consider that win-win, for the environment and for better money.

The concept of a “standard” seems to be lost when paper versions for that thing can be substituted

The realization of worthlessness of US debt that occurred in these recent failures only accounts for 0.4% of the total US bond market. That’s a lot of potential destruction ahead

As long as Bitcoin uses the RIPEMD160 hash function, there are 2^160 Bitcoin addresses.

That number is:

1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976

The purpose of a military conquest is to take control of foreign economies, to take control of their land and impose tribute. The genius of the World Bank was to recognize that it’s not necessary to occupy a country in order to impose tribute, or to take over its industry, agriculture and land. Instead of bullets, it uses financial maneuvering. As long as other countries play an artificial economic game that U.S. diplomacy can control, finance is able to achieve today what used to require bombing and loss of life by soldiers.

-Michael Hudson

Imagine what that cash could have done for healthcare. Public housing. Education. The Environment. Infrastructure.

Nah, we had to kill people and take their oil.