I don't understand this argument that we need to onboard 8 billion people for Bitcoin to be successful.

Mainstream history is a bigger lie than the mainstream news.

History is written by the winners. Ghandi was not who you think he was. He defended the caste system by using the fasting-till-death protest when the UK wanted to give some political power to the Untouchables. He was also into war and violence until he calculated that peaceful protest would play better in the western media. He also slept with naked teenage girls (though apparently he didn't do anything with them). Who funds the view of Ghandi as a modern day saint? The Indian government. Verify, don't trust.

College these days is a giant rug pull.

Centralized algorithms choose winners and losers.

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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.