Just watched a disturbing video on Instagram. It's a dude explaining how Epstein trapped people and how some of his friends almost got trapped. he describes a situation where a business man goes to meet with Epstein looking for investment and after the meeting Epstein say 'hey I'm about to get a massage would you like to join me?' and the masseuse is an attractive young woman and during the massage she then gives dude a hand job and dude doesn't realize that the masseuse is 17 & there are cameras in the room. Boom, he got you! Do you see the problem here? This guy presents this situation as if it's just a freak accident that anyone could fall into. Like a car accident, just a sad unfortunate situation. And he completely glosses over, and just assumes that all middle aged business men are quite happy to accept a hand job from a woman young enough to be their daughter. And who the fuck actually does that? Who just has such low moral standards that with out even thinking about it they cheat on a significant other, and with someone young enough to be their child? No way bro. That's no accident. If you got caught by that you 100% deserved it!

It's not their son's that die in their wars, it's your sons that are sacrificed to their cause.

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This, just make it tropical 🌴 (Note, my husband is hot not just because of his bulging biceps, but because he is a decent and very caring person 🫶 )

Don’t let Bitcoin be co-opted. And no I’m not talking about some BIP, or filter, or fork, I’m talking about authoritarianism. ...and how fucked up is that? To have to tell Bitcoiners of all people to reject authoritarian values! But it makes perfect sense, especially after having digested recent world news, Epstein files, etc. My number one take away from what we’ve learned from the files is that evil people, and by that I mean psychopaths, etc. will attempt to co-opt and control whatever they can. Bitcoin tech, as it currently exists, can not be controlled, but the humans working with this tech sure can. What are your values? What drew you to Bitcoin? Years ago when I was studying economics and monetary theory I realized what a massive force for the centralization of power fiat money is. I wanted better money that didn’t centralize power. I wanted money that democratized power. I did, and still do love Bitcoin because it is freedom tech. And that’s the important part there, concentrations of power are the antithesis of freedom. I saw that then, and now it just burns a hole in me every morning when I wake up and remember the dystopian nightmare we are living in. We can see from recent news that those who wish to put their boot of oppression on the world don’t try to outright, openly suppress others, instead they slowly take over, compromising influential people, they co-opt. And whether it’s intentional or a by-product of efforts elsewhere, this is what’s been happening to the public facing culture of Bitcoin. With hindsight I can see that I started to encounter authoritarianism in Bitcoin way back in 2018, but it presented to me in the form of misogyny. And this makes perfect sense, misogyny is just an intimate form of authoritarianism. It’s just a component in the “dominance hierarchy”. When you value hierarchy and status, when you aspire to be above others, and when violence is justified in this effort, well, women are some of the first targets for suppression. It’s so widespread in the Bitcoin influencer crew that I can turn it into a fun game. I can pick out one of these authoritarian people when at some speakers' dinner, go up to them, launch into an anti authoritarian rant, and they just can’t help but tell me why I should go home and obey my husband. Like for reals, it’s so predictable. Let's play this game together next time we're at a conference. We can place bets. I’m going to clean you out! But what is very important to note here is that these people really are not representations of Bitcoiners at large. They are just the crazy loudmouth infestation that claim to speak for everyone else that every movement suffers from. When I go to smaller events, when I’m around non-American Bitcoiners, we commiserate about how atrocious these influencers are. The values of these loudmouth influencers are not the values of Bitcoiners at large. Most Bitcoiners are very decent people. Freedom loving people. And by that I mean people that want freedom not just for themselves, but for the world. And that makes perfect sense. The vast majority of people in the Bitcoin world came here because we value freedom and see Bitcoin as freedom tech. For most of us, we saw how fiat money was a concentration of power that is very abused, used to fund wars, used to further inequality in the world, etc. And we came here to work on this tech to remove that co-opted concentration of power. We don’t value being ‘above’ others. We don’t value wearing the boot of oppression. “Dominance hierarchy”, “status”, “citadels”, “have fun staying poor”, “women need to submit to the leadership of their husband”, etc. these things are a reflection of poor values. These things are a reflection of not valuing human freedom. These are the values of people that are not freedom loving. A small, but steady, percentage of humanity are “evil”, or more technically speaking, psychopaths and sociopaths. That by itself is bad, but what really turns this reality into atrocities is when all of us who do possess empathy and solid values allow ourselves to get caught up in these ugly mindsets. These psychopaths can’t rule the world if we just stop following them. You don’t have to try to change them. Just hit the unfollow button and let them be the crazy guy rambling around the town square shouting insanity while we all just carry on having lunch with our friends. Because again most humans are very decent people who want to do good in the world. Most Bitcoiners are freedom loving people who want to build, use, and support freedom tech. We just need to hold on to that. We need to know our values and not allow ourselves to get caught up in the us vs them hatred that will be used as excuses to compromise our values. Your values aren’t your values if you only follow them on good days. Don’t get co-opted.

Please don’t try to compliment me by telling me that I look young. I’m every inch of 42. This life is tough, every year is an accomplishment. Please don’t try to diminish that, I earned this 42! Please do compliment me by telling me that I look fit and healthy. I work hard on that!

How sad is it that here we are in 2026 and nearly every time I leave the house to attend a social event I wind up having to explain to someone why women's minds and decisions should be respected. People really just openly have such atrocious values that they will just go around stating that the decision making of half of humanity should be discounted, disrespected. Wild.

The ends never justify the means. You are the means you chose.

I wonder how many of these pedo cannibals and those that enable them go around telling themselves that this is just a necessary evil to maintain the order of the world? Cuz the ends justify the means… right?

New Do ✨

We know 😥 But it's not like Iran is the 'good guy' tho. We just out here swimmin in a sea of 'bad guys'.

An evergreen concept, but I gave the meme a modern AI upgrade 🫶