Now do all of the countries where automatic guns are outlawed and the homicide rate is lower than the USA. I assume you won’t because you’ll get tired of typing

Not saying don’t have guns. But the overwhelming number on the right and left believe in some common sense rules to prevent more crazies from obtaining them. You can’t stop 100%, but hell, I’ll take a 50% reduction.

The Swiss have guns and so do many other countries but they don’t have the mass murders. Guess we could learn something from them.

There’s pros and cons to everything. Many in Australia may be happy that there aren’t mass shootings regularly.

Not sure there is a direct relationship between guns and lockdowns but you may be right.

Many countries without guns did not have stringent lockdowns as well.

Don’t think you’re comparing correctly.

I trust a trained marine with a machine gun going overseas (or domestic) to protect my country vs my neighbor who goes nuts if someone parks on the street in front of his house.

I trust an electrician to install a new breaker box, because he was trained to do so and understands the danger/seriousness of the task. I do not trust my dad with the same tools to do the same task because he does not know how to.

I think most on the left and right (polls are 80+%) think it’s fine for Americans to own firearms but to go through a process similar to a driving test to prove they know how to handle a firearm, how to store it safely, and it’s a mental health check in point for the instructor.

Former conservative chief Supreme Court justice disagreed with that interpretation

https://youtu.be/Eya_k4P-iEo

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/24/supreme-court-gun-second-amendment-bruen/

https://twitter.com/NSmolenski/status/1641048240945614849?s=20

The democratic ranking members comments:

“We cannot act rashly without consideration of the very real soft power, free speech and economic consequences of a ban,” Meeks said on Tuesday. He later warned his colleagues against using the tactics of “fear” to pass a TikTok ban. “I’ve seen that tactic utilized before — fear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, without evidence or proof,” he said.

From Natalie Smolenski:

Republican Senator Marco Rubio says the bill doesn’t go far enough and has proposed an even more draconian one.

Republican Representative Michael McCaul, Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, sponsored a bill to give President Biden unilateral authority to ban apps—the censorship equivalent of the AUMF, which granted the President full authority to wage war anywhere, anytime, for any reason.

McCaul’s bill was just passed by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee entirely along party lines (all Republicans for, all Democrats against) and will be voted on by the full House soon.

For everyone who believes the republicans want small government that will protect your rights and prevent government over reach, they are pushing for even more presidential power to ban apps than we have been discussing the last several days.

Democrats in the committee unanimously voted against it out of fear of allowing too much government overreach.

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https://twitter.com/NSmolenski/status/1641048240945614849?s=20

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2023/03/01/house-republicans-tiktok-ban-00084951

Stop training the robot overlords!

But on a serious note, hope you use a burner email and vpn so they don’t can’t link all of your usage history to you.

Hopefully #[0]​ has microstrategies btc in multisig with keys located in multiple countries. With operation chokepoint 2.0 upon us, seems like an exec order 6102 for btc could come sooner rather than later. If I were the government I’d start with easy big targets like mstr and gbtc vs going after plebs.

No. The point being the govt can easily confiscate all of the coins gbtc holds.

From a reformed “crypto bro”

So yes, I'm going to keep going hard as fuck against the latest iteration of scammers pretending to be your friend, and the sheep who are making the same bonehead mistakes as I once did.

There is no more time for fiat games.

Turn off the crypto youtubers, turn off the altcoin CEO Reddit AMAs, and listen to the toxic bitcoiners who have already completed their Mt. Stupid expedition.

https://twitter.com/benwehrman/status/1640378823274266635?s=20

China has a solution to that, camps to place you in until you ‘remember’ your 12 words.

I guess America has a history of camps as well, see the Americans of Japanese decent around ww2. When governments/ppl get scared enough, all your precious ‘rights’ disappear. Patriot act may be another good example.

But agreed, 12 words is certainly better than any other alternative.

Ahh that’s where you’re mistaken. They own all bitcoin that isn’t self custodied by individuals. They just write some words on a fancy sheet of paper and take it from GBTC for national security or to save the kids or something.

May not work for everyone, but simply living in a country where school shootings don’t exist is very easy. Not being able to take care of children’s safety (in school or otherwise) seems to be a problem limited to one first world country and some astonishingly poor countries.

Not sure if it’s true, but saw something that said in America more kids are shot dead than killed in car accidents. That’s extremely hard to believe, especially in a country with so many cars and car accidents, but if true, so sad.

How do you short bnb? Asking for a friend

They probably had it coming. Only thing I don’t like is cftc lumping in shitcoins like eth and ltc with bitcoin as commodities but I guess their tug of war with the sec continues

I worry about paper markets, particularly once etfs are commonplace and once institutional money (that does not want to self custody) comes in hard.

We saw how ftx’s paper bitcoin games suppressed bitcoins price, I think we could have that on a much larger scale if self custody becomes less prevalent.