Stalin was first and foremost a bureaucrat. He was able to become dictator over the USSR precisely because he had an enormous capacity to do mind-numbing paper-pushing work. Lenin gave him lots of such work because he didn't mind doing it and Stalin, in turn, used the bureaucratic position to cement his position once Lenin passed. Our tendency is to view bureaucracy as something benign and annoying, but in fact it is a cancer that devastates the organization that hosts it. If you've read The Real Anthony Fauci, you'll see that Fauci did something similar to cement his power, just at a smaller scale. It's the consummate bureaucrat, that will double-think their way to the top that ends up in power and unsurprisingly, they are truly sociopathic once in power. They also don't stop being bureaucrats. Stalin worked 18 hours a day until the day he died, doing the paper-pushing that got him there. It's perhaps why he got more cruel the longer he stayed in power.

Orange pilling people that have been screwed by the system is much, much easier than people that have greatly benefited (aka Cantillionaires). One of the consequences is that people in industries/countries that are further away from the Fed, are easier to convince.

Cancellation is their sword. Nostr is our shield.

Every social media platform is a mini experiment in governance. Facebook is a plutocracy YouTube is a technocracy BlueSky is an oligarchy X is a monarchy Nostr is anarchy The centralized/decentralized distinction, as usual is the most important part and why it's so much freer here.

Regulations hurt crypto way more than it does Bitcoin. Debanking hurts crypto way more than it does Bitcoin. Laws hurt crypto way more than it does Bitcoin. This is because crypto is centralized and has single points of failure which Bitcoin doesn't.

If you're nervous about quantum computing being imminent, just read this paper. It was published a decade ago and it still holds up. Really, they have no idea how to do most of what's required to make a quantum computer still, and even if they did, there's no real way to QA a quantum computer. Like most academic disciplines these days, it's fiat through and through. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3629

Thoughts on the Roger Ver/Tucker Carlson interview First, let me be clear, I've had a somewhat combative history with Roger [1], but the man does not deserve to be in prison. The US Government's contention that a non-citizen can be guilty of tax evasion is just laughable on its face. That said, there are a whole lot of lies and half-truths in that interview. First, Roger still seems to be giving himself credit for Bitcoin's early success. Yes, he promoted it a lot on different platforms, and indeed he was known as "Bitcoin Jesus" for a bit for his almost incessant proselytizing. But he wasn't the reason for Bitcoin's success and it was this belief that led him to say "I made Bitcoin what it is today and I'll do the same with Bitcoin Cash." Years of languishing BCH price (literally the same price as it was 2017 and that's not taking inflation into account) hasn't humbled the guy one bit. He also shilled a lot of different altcoins, mostly focused around privacy. One of his goals on the show seems to have been to pump his bags and for him, it's probably not very different than his early Bitcoin advocacy. He's still a classic altcoin promoter and despite his utter lack of success the last 7 years, he continues down this path. But the most egregious lie is this idea that his new book is the reason why everything is happening to him, implying that he has something so important to say that the US government must shut him down. The suggestion is that somehow Bitcoin was taken over by the US government and that they needed to suppress his book for the sake of government policy. The lie wouldn't be so egregious if he sincerely believed it. But I don't think that's the case. Why? Because he still owns Bitcoin. The man is a salesman first, and his public pronouncements are almost always spin to get other people to buy what he's selling. Personally, I don't think his arguments were compelling and he kept saying "cryptocurrency" which grated on my ears, but who knows how many people will be convinced by him? But then again, I always thought CSW was a fraud, but there were a surprising number of people that fell for his claims (including Ver, at least for a time). Regardless, I don't think this presages some sort of Roger Ver comeback as he's been irrelevant for a long time. Yes, he may go to prison and become something like a celebrity cause, and he certainly has enough money to promote his suffering. And yea, he may get some fame from being something like political prisoner of the deep state. But it won't make his opinions any more palatable because they're demonstrably dumb. [1] https://jimmysong.medium.com/bitcoin-cash-is-a-fiat-money-39626c002f77

The Fed basically funds all the psyops not just in the US but all over the world. It can't be destroyed fast enough.

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Seriously, you trust Google? You trust an organization that's incentivized to put out impressive sounding results or lose funding? You trust people that "achieved" quantum supremacy in 2019 which was later debunked? Stop trusting "don't be evil".

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