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Knowing a thing and being told a thing are different and most people can’t tell which. Reformed Christian, Nostr class of 23, I think Host of The ContraCast Podcast https://fountain.fm/show/XRuDwbnAzVdjjchD4Veq
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Contra 4 months ago
The energy on Nostr right now is real. Notes pouring in, zaps flying, the network breathing and alive. This is what winning looks like. Days like this are the fuel. Keep going.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Contra 4 months ago
The upcoming generation will never understand image
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Gm Nostr. Be unshakable image
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Contra 4 months ago
The welfare state didn’t just redistribute wealth, it redistributed the family structure itself. When government becomes the provider of last resort, it eliminates the economic consequence of paternal abandonment. No fault. No guilt. No necessity. Moynihan warned about this in 1965. He was called a racist for it. Sixty years later the data vindicated him completely and the people who silenced him still haven’t apologized. You didn’t liberate the family by making fathers optional. You just made the state the father. And the state is a terrible father. It doesn’t coach little league. It doesn’t model manhood. It sends a check and a caseworker. The cruelest irony of progressive welfare policy is that it was sold as compassion and its legacy is fatherlessness at industrial scale.
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Contra 4 months ago
The noise machine runs 24/7. Manufactured crisis, engineered despair, algorithmic anxiety. It’s designed to keep people exhausted and apathetic. What the machine didn’t plan for was the quiet, unstoppable process of people waking up. Self awareness doesn’t trend. It doesn’t go viral. It spreads person to person, in honest conversations, in the quiet moment someone finally questions the narrative they were handed. History belongs to us. Right here. Right now and in spaces like Nostr. The awakening is already underway.
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Contra 4 months ago
Those who require constant affirmation are governed by it. Those who move without announcement are governed by intention. Choose your inputs carefully today. Act with purpose. GM Nostr!
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Contra 4 months ago
When you walk into a business and they accept Bitcoin.
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Contra 4 months ago
Most people misunderstand what actually sustains decentralized systems. Systems like Bitcoin and Nostr are not sustained by popularity cycles. They are sustained by people who continue to act correctly even when the feedback mechanisms are absent or broken. If your output depends on attention, you are still governed by it. Independence is demonstrated in silence, not rewarded by it.
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Contra 4 months ago
Epstein wasn’t the beginning. He was just when the American NPCs started paying attention. The sexual blackmail network didn’t start with Epstein. It goes back 70+ years in an unbroken chain. Meyer Lansky to Roy Cohn to Robert Maxwell (Ghislaines father) to Jeffrey Epstein. Same methods. Same players. Organized crime merged with intelligence agencies, and they’ve been compromising elites with sex ever since. Roy Cohn ran these operations out of the Plaza Hotel for decades. His proteges? Roger Stone. Paul Manafort. Robert Maxwell installed backdoored software for intelligence agencies worldwide while his daughter Ghislaine set up the next generation. The Mega Group billionaires like Wexner and Bronfman bankrolled it all. This is how American power has always operated. The public is just now waking up to it. Most Nostriches have seen right through the captured institutions, the controlled narratives, the convenient suicides, the whole intelligence as venture capital model before it was mainstream. Remember this is exactly why we’re on Nostr. That’s why we built our own protocols. Our own money. Our own communications. They can’t blackmail what they can’t control. They can’t control what they can’t shut down. Keep building. The truth doesn’t need permission anymore.
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Contra 4 months ago
My wife on Valentine’s Day! Anyone else’s? image
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Contra 4 months ago
“He that will not rest from sin one day in seven gives cause to question whether he hath any true desire to rest from it forever.” Richard Baxter Gm Nostr. It’s the Lords day. May everyone have a blessed day with your families. #ReformedQuotes
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Contra 4 months ago
Everyone that’s ever posted a note on Nostr image
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I was sent an article that was posted on X about ai by Matt Shumer that went viral. It’s long and well written. I mulled over it. I have some thoughts that may be easier to share talking live rather than long forming this thing? I have an hour while driving. Long form write it or go live?
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Contra 4 months ago
AI is the first labor disruption with no escape hatch. I’ll go make some coffee while you all figure out why I’m wrong.
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Contra 4 months ago
Who remembers this little piece of tech? Winamp image