Que Pelosi's comments about how they will pass the legislation they want by any means necessary.
There are people who want "hate speech" laws passed so that they can control all future discourse.
If they can get said laws passed using trans people as pawns they will do that, as they did in the UK. They have been trying to create animosity over race & sexual preferences in the US for years now. They even tried to sell us Asian hate. They have tried to call everyone who opposed them Nazis. And they are now trying to magnify hatred for jewish people & are paying people to pose as nazi sympathizers in campus protests, so they can simultaneously distract from all rational opposition to the ongoing war, while trying to capitalize on religious conservative support for Israel, & also leverage it into support for the hate speech laws they want.
The goal is to legalize censorship, & they will use any means possible to achieve their goal.
When people attack others for simply stating the most basic of facts, that is the most important time to say what is true & be willing to stand behind it, or even die for it. Because when silence & the acceptance of lies & delusion become the norm all possible paths forward lead to some form of hell on earth.
Should add Saif's Principles of Economics to the econ section, it's a great book.
#Guns are the great equalizers
Honestly, Google has been mostly worthless for years now. Censorship has been obvious to the point of being ridiculous.
Speak up for all those who have the ears to hear
"Everything authoritarian communists want to achieve that isn't already done can be achieved within the oppressive legal & regulatory structures already built."
Things can still get a lot worse... I'm just saying we are much farther along the path to communism than most people would believe. The govt has unilaterally fired people & shut down businesses. The govt has violated property rights in so many ways that all supposed limits appear to be gone.
Communists are never actually happy with the results their policies produce. Happiness is never actually the goal, their motivation is almost always just to tear down anyone who is happy or successful, or who simply has more than them, until the only people who have more are govt authorities they fear.
Oh it can get worse from where we are, but prices in many ways already aren't efficiently allocating resources because monetary policy IS central planning. They do not have to call it nationalization to effectively nationalize everyrhing & squeeze out all real competition or profit & loss.
The majority of the negative impact can be achieved via bailouts & regulation & subsidies that squeeze out competitors & transform major corps into extensions of govt that spy & collect taxes via withholding. Everything authoritarian communists want to achieve that isn't already done can be achieved within the oppressive legal & regulatory structures already built. No need for a more honest naming convention if it all works the same either way.
If govt has a central bank that controls interest rates & money creation & they control & regulate all banks, then we basically have communism laundered under "capitalist" labels.
With enough regulatory control & taxation & subsidization, nationalization of industry is unnecessary & would produce no significant difference in conditions.
So this just happened... 
I think some guys built a centralized service that helped people move dollars around US banking restrictions & they got targeted for doing so. But they ran the service so conservatively (& probably made a solid argument for the benefits of further dollarizing politically unstable parts of the world) that there was no good reason to shut them down. They agree to comply with whatever the feds want the same way all centralized services do, while they use their resources to fund a more decentralized project.
It's not, by your bcash logic, where the money comes from should corrupt the project.
So what? The goal was to create a BitTorrent like social media protocol. It looks to me like they have done that. The underlying pieces that were assembled were started in like 2014.
Pear runtime is now open, the UI layer will be open before long too.
Tether is a centralized service, Keet is not. Jack made money off of Twitter & then helped to fund Nostr development, you gonna quit Nostr too?
