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Persistent provocateur of deliberate thought | Advocate for radical individual sovereignty | Occasional composer | Reformed Christian Need a good Bitcoin jam? 👇🏻 https://wavlake.com/album/257a5d0f-bb0f-48a0-8875-5a2624c955a6
Ammunition for some, heresy for others. 🟠🟣 The system runs on harvesting. They don’t just use athletes, actors, musicians, they farm them. Take someone with raw talent, package their image, control their narrative, monetize their influence, then extract everything valuable until they’re used up or compliant. The same model scales in communities that get harvested for votes, workers for labor, creators for content, attention for ad revenue, data for prediction. You are not the customer. You are the crop. What about the politicians? They’re middle management. The presidents, the administrations, the agencies, the military industrial complex, these aren’t the architects. They’re the enforcers. The public facing layer that makes you think you have a choice every four years. Red or blue. Left or right. Meanwhile, the same wars continue. The same money prints. The same surveillance expands. The same corporations get bailed out. The same families stay wealthy. The same control structure remains untouched. You think you’re voting for change. But in reality you’re voting for which face reads the script. The policies were already written. The budgets already allocated. The bombs already purchased. Your vote is a pressure release valve so you feel like you participated in your own governing. You didn’t. You endorsed the next shift rotation of a management class that answers to people you’ve never seen on a ballot. The military doesn’t serve you. It serves empire(1st hand experience). It serves resource extraction. It serves the petrodollar and the central banking system and the corporations that profit from destabilization. Young people with purpose and conviction get fed into foreign conflicts that have nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with maintaining global dominance for a financial elite. The sacrifices are real. The veterans come home broken. The gold star families grieve. And the architects stay safe in boardrooms and country clubs, richer than before. The politicians perform. The agencies enforce. The media manufactures consent. And the population gets divided into teams, arguing over symptoms while the disease continues untreated. The architects understand that if they control the money, control the information, control the identity, you can then control the reality of the people living inside. Fiat currency that bleeds value by design. Media platforms that algorithmically shape what you see, think, and believe. Identity systems that require permission from institutions just to exist in the economy. Every major structure of modern life is a gate, and someone else holds the keys. This is all engineered. A group positioned themselves as the intermediaries of everything that matters. Your wealth, your voice, your reputation, your access. They built a world where you have to pass through them to participate. And in that position, they extract. They censor. They deplatform. They inflate away your savings. They decide what’s true. They sacrifice whoever doesn’t serve the agenda. But if you’re still reading this, good. I held your attention long enough that you didn’t scroll past and dismiss it. Because what comes next matters more than the diagnosis. Look at what just happened with CK. His assassination. Now remove the lens they want you to see through. Watch how mainstream media framed it. How the president and administration responded. How TPUSA and EK postured. How foreign governments reacted. Are you paying attention? Because independent journalists have been exposing truths about this specific case that directly undermine the entire information control structure I just described. And they’re doing it on X, a centralized platform still subject to moderation, shadow bans, and algorithmic suppression. Now imagine a world where we’re using Nostr and Bitcoin. Where more people are on board. Where truth is among our highest priorities. Where getting to the bottom of corruption and evil actually gets exposed. Where the corrupt actually get penalized. Where the intermediaries lose their grip because we’ve built infrastructure they can’t control. We are on that path right now. Don’t give up orange pilling and purple pilling the person to your left and right. This is where we fight. This is higher than any one of us. But we have far more in common with each other than anyone in the system wants us to believe. They need us divided. They need us distracted. They need us dependent. Bitcoin removes their control over your wealth. Nostr removes their control over your voice. Together, they remove their ability to gate keep your participation in the future being built right now. Imagine what becomes possible when truth can’t be censored. When value can’t be confiscated. When identity can’t be revoked. When coordination happens peer to peer. When the harvest model breaks because people simply step outside the fence. The system doesn’t fall from revolution. It becomes irrelevant through exodus. And that exodus is already underway. Will Bitcoin and Nostr communities be perfect? No. Humans will still be humans. Scammers will still scam. Disagreements will still happen. But when the foundation is permissionless, you can’t be silenced for calling out corruption within these systems either. When the money can’t be printed, grifters can’t monetize endless wars. When speech can’t beplatformed or deplatformed by a central authority, truth has a chance to surface through repetition and verification instead of algorithmic suppression. This is adversarial resilience. It’s removing single points of failure. It’s making corruption expensive again instead of systematized. The toxicity doesn’t disappear, it just loses its institutional protection.
The porn industry isn’t just morally questionable. It’s a documented vehicle for sex trafficking. And the major platforms profit from it knowingly. Did you know that GirlsDoPorn was a major sex trafficking operation? Michael Pratt ran a federal sex trafficking operation that exploited hundreds of women from 2013 to 2019. Women were promised videos would never go online. They were lied to, coerced, threatened with lawsuits, and forced to continue filming during rough abuse that caused pain and bleeding. The operation grossed millions. Ban it all.
The moment you stop converting sats to dollars in your head is the moment you actually understand Bitcoin. You’re not “up” or “down,” you simply have more or less Bitcoin. The price is just fiat having its daily identity crisis. Your stack is denominated in the hardest money that’s ever existed. Stack accordingly. Stop checking charts. Start checking your conviction.
Building the exit while ignoring the fire is not wisdom, it’s abandonment. Yes, we build. Yes, we create parallel systems. Yes, Bitcoin and Nostr represent genuine alternatives to corrupted institutions. But the idea that focusing on systemic abuse of children is somehow playing into “their” hands is a moral cop out dressed up as strategic thinking. You can frame a house while calling the fire department. You can plant a garden while still reporting the predator in your neighborhood. These are not competing priorities. They are complementary responsibilities. The children being trafficked and abused by elites are not a distraction from building a better world. They are the reason we build it. If our new systems are just escape pods for those privileged enough to understand Bitcoin while we turn our backs on the most vulnerable, then we have built nothing of lasting value. The powerful want silence, not attention. They want us looking away, not asking questions. They want us to accept that some crimes are too big to prosecute, some networks too connected to expose. Calling that acceptance “focus” is exactly the kind of rationalization that lets evil persist. We build the exit AND we kick down the door. Anything less is just building a nicer cage while pretending we found freedom. View quoted note →