Translation: The elites hear your concerns, but won’t solve any of them and are actually about to double down and stark cracking down on communications freedoms even harder soon so that they can pretend that there are no more criticisms since they can’t be heard anymore. View quoted note →

Anyone else have this problem on @YakiHonne ? I can see the profile photo and the timestamp, but not even an outline of the content of the note nor the actual username of the npub that posted it. Makes it really hard to see what is important to open or not.

Congrats, we have rediscovered aristolelian politics. Aristotle laid governments out into oligarchy, monarchy, and democracy. And he posited that they produced each other in a cycle. The ineptitude and mutually parasitic interests of a democratic mob eventually created a deficit spending bureaucratic class of oligarchs in charge of distributing the voted-for soils. Then the oligarchs start enriching themselves at the expense of the populace that propped them up until the commoners select “someone, anyone” to remove the collective bureaucratic weight from their shoulders. Thus, through Cesarism, the society arrives at monarchy. Then, some generations later, the descendant of that great ceasar is an incompetent fool who the people remove in order to “do it themselves”… but only because his ancestor freed the people from the bureaucracy and enabled them the latitude for such competency. Since the grandchildren of the liberating democrats lack the context and moral direction of their grandparents, they succumb to the allure of voting themselves other people’s money, and thus the cycle repeats. View quoted note →

A very good read, but I will caveat one point: “Internet centralizes” is wrong. #nostr is a good example. People can publish their own albums, cutting into the fame of the establishment musicians. Opinions that used to be impossible to express on TV are now spoken on internet platforms. This is why the isolationist right has been making a comeback despite not being favorable to any “approved” networks or outlets. As options like Nostr and simplex expand to provide alternatives to centralized internet platforms like X/Twitter and tiktok, the diversity of ideas and content that is able to be shared will continue to increase. View quoted note →

The whole value statement of crypto is deregulation and non-inflationary value. They can’t change the source code to make it inflationary, so they will try to regulate it into irrelevance. View quoted note →

Every time my country invaded a Stone Age one, the first thing that happens is that those people end up getting mass imported to my country as “refugees”. But somehow making fun of the anti-ice protestors who magically have the money to travel across the country to be at “protests” thousands of miles apart means I support more of the interventionist wars that bring the invaders here. This is “you supported trump on one thing, therefore youre a cult member that uncritically supports his every decision”. Sick of the crap. This is why we get memes like this: View quoted note →

Oh look, it’s all the professional “protesters” at every one of these “protests” while I have to work a real job to pay for their mysterious deep-state funded Craigslist activism job. View quoted note →

The alternative to removing the invaders is internal conquest like the welfare and voter fraud going on in MN. There is no option BUT to deport them. The deep state would push the other shit regardless and is still using “CSAM” as an excuse too (like the online self-doxxing requirements for things like even X/twitter). They will find any excuse. This isn’t maga having tunnel vision, this is the machine using whatever thing is in the popular zeitgeist to push its agenda. If maga suddenly became all about MAHA and getting “forever chemicals” out of our food/water supply, the deep state would start rolling out mandatory smart home devices to “check our water” that happen to conveniently have microphones and wifi connectivity “for your safety”. Believing that this is somehow maga’s fault for not wanting their companies being internally infested with fraudster indias IS the psyop. View quoted note →

Agreed. I knew the mesh was too short of range. Bitchat will never work as advertised until it reaches a certain level of ubiquity in a single area. The sole benefit of bitchat over more secure methods of Bluetooth mesh like meshtastic/meshcore is the the zero upfront cost (no need for ANY new hardware). But ephemeral anonymous coms can have its use in heavily censored environments. But, like with any coms that arent message runners, it comes with risks. View quoted note →

So many people on here so desperate to make a “deep state plot” out of the ice officer saying that he shot her for nothing. Well he is in the hospital now for injuries sustained. This is why “libertarians” are so often just leftists that want to pretend to be “not like the other girls”.

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This one might be a bit too edgy for my @Beatbox Serenade moniker, so I’ll drop it here. But it’s a joke on the army going woke, in the form of a sea shanty. #music #acapella #parody #woke #seashanty #funny

A Great post about why the USA has become “the world police”. In response to the question “who made them the world police”? Original text follows——————// The entire world did. The US has almost the entire world on salary. In just 30 years, they have given 1.3 trillion dollars in aid to the world. That is the GDP of the whole of Ghana 16x, Kenya 12x, Nigeria 3x. They are the top donors to the United Nations, 28%. They are the top donors to the WHO, around 15%. They are the ones with the largest financial commitment to the IMF, around 17%  They give money through bilateral relations, country-to-country, and multilateral solutions, such as the UN, WHO, IMF, etc. 80% of the money goes to things like education, healthcare, social development, etc. They pay the largest of NATO's defence budget, aroud 70%, so Europe can be safe, project power, and keep the balance of geopolitical scale. I could go on and on about how the entire world simply stands in line for US paychecks. And that is why America feels it is the leader of the free world. They are paying for it, at the cost of their national treasury. They are in debt, but they keep paying. If the world wants America's interventionism to stop, let it bring as much financial stake to the international table. In international politics, the one paying you is controlling you. You can't have one without the other. This is why the US feels it can police the world. It is like guarding the enterprise they are paying for.

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Lekan Olayinka (@lekan_olayinka1) on X

The entire world did. The US has almost the entire world on salary. In just 30 years, they have given 1.3 trillion dollars in aid to the world. ...

A beautiful example of why #theleft specifically saught to kill #philosophy before anything else. They needed to kill the very basics of empirical epistemology. This is also why I say that Ayn Rand’s best contribution to philosophy is NOT her ethics (which is missing some key features), but her #epistemology Another person’s words follow ————————-//// Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim beneath their words. It’s a common tactic of theirs to hide easily refutable absurdities using pseudo-intellectual confusion spells, but these are easy to defend against with some practice. As a case study: the leftist below claims that race isn’t real because it’s a socially constructed, arbitrary fence around a complex & continuous reality (genes). But this describes every human concept and word — language itself is an attempt to “ring fence” reality (i.e. compress it, discretize it) so that we can make sense of it. For example: color names are social constructs. Color is a continuous spectrum; we divided it up into neighborhoods called “blue” and “green” so that we could talk about color. I can tell you that the sky is blue or the grass is green, and you’ll know with reasonable accuracy what I mean by that. But color boundaries are fuzzy — people often vehemently disagree about whether shades of turquoise are blue or green. Following the leftist’s argument, this means that neither blue nor green exist. Colors cannot be named or talked about because it requires us to “ring fence” the color spectrum. Expanding the argument, this means that sense making itself — which always requires discretizing & compressing a continuous reality — is invalid. Human thought itself is an impossible project. Reality is an incomprehensible soup that can only be experienced and never named. The very words the leftist used to communicate this to me are impossible, nothing but empty pointers. This is obviously retarded, given that our compressed & discretized world models are truthful enough to allow us to shape & predict the physical world. We have inventions that work; we can move around and interact with our environment effectively. Our brains evolved to compress reality in ways that increase our survival, which could only work if the compression is at least somewhat faithful. To deny that race exists because it’s socially constructed is to deny that anything exists at all. This is a worthless assertion that can simply be laughed at and dismissed

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ℜ𝔞𝔢 (@dystopiangf) on X

Whenever you’re facing a leftist cognitive frag grenade like “social constructs aren’t real,” it’s useful to dissect the core claim benea...

The crazy things is that I COULD leave the USA easily, but there is nowhere else I’d rather be.

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On the Heritage American: I grew up in military bases most of my life before the great "awokening." These are generally diverse places and the demo...

Hence why all government is force, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Even the most utopian ideal government stops monsters who harm others… by force. But the principle applies both ways. Remove force from the citizens and, wouldn’t you know it, some people don’t respond to anything else. Cribminals will circumvent ANY law, even a good one, unless you FORCE them not to. A polite society is an armed society. View quoted note →