I will be participating in exactly zero stupid fucking wars between Israel and the lunatic warmongering US govt and whatever country they think is convenient to obliterate so they can install a “pro west” tyrant.

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Unfortunately, if you pay taxes to the US Government or hold any amount of dollars you participate by default. I agree with your statement but money printer go Brrrrrrrrrrrr for the war machine.
Fuck the zionists and fuck the US War machine. You all are gonna go broke proping up that terrorists state
Any thoughts on leaving the US some day? I’m torn as I don’t want my future children to fight in a politician’s war but still have my family & roots here. I didn’t think I’d ever consider the thought until I read Sovereign Individual and watched the West get progressively crazier.
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HoloKat 8 months ago
But aren’t you a patriot? Who’s going to bring freeduhms to thems peoples over there? 😜
I stay and fight for it. America is an idea and there’s no better place to reignite that idea than here, imo. It just means not running and not quietly consenting to all of their bullshit. Exit the money. Exit the system. Voice your opposition. Do not comply. If enough people did that they lose their power. It’s the only option, imo.
I didn’t say having the world on a Bitcoin standard, I said *I* was on a Bitcoin standard. Thus, I am not contributing by supporting their dollar by allowing my money to be inflated.
The whole world doesn’t pay taxes to the IRS or is involved in the political process that put people in place that voted for these. There were wars under a gold standard and there will be war under a bitcoin standard. Bitcoin is part of the solution, but we also need a political solution to the subversion of out political institutions by foreign governments
You’re contributing less, but presumably you still pay taxes and you’re still involved in the political process (even if the involvement is to abstain from participating) that allowed for this to happen. Dollar bills didn’t send weapons to Israel.
The world is even bigger. That being said, I still have hope in the Americans with courage and morality to change the grim path we’re on; and motivates me to be part of that change
Iran has consistently called for the destruction of Israel for the last 20 years, has launched their own missiles into Israel (April 2024), and has funded and supported numerous terrorist groups like Hamas's October 7th attack on innocent civilians. If I were Israel I'd be pissed too. Why are we only upset when Israel takes out Iranian leadership and hampers their nuclear program?
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0x07AA 8 months ago
Israel is arrogant. They are the little guy at the bar picking fights with everyone because they have a really big friend there with them. Well, the really big friend is getting tired of fighting wars for Benjamin Netanyahu.
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BuckRodgers 8 months ago
I will be participating in exactly ZERO protests tomorrow to cry about it
Thanks Guy 🙏 we need more bitcoiners to call out Israel’s fuckery.
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Moses317 8 months ago
Black Fridays matter bruh. Stay Jewish.
But Guy, that's impossible... If the puppet we install is pro west, it _caaaant_ be a tyrant! Must be a liberator
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AaNon 🤔 8 months ago
You are participating because you fund the wars and terrorist regimes with your taxes. Until you Americans get the courage Americans had in 1776 to revolt over the tiny tax they had to pay, the wars will continue.
How old are you that you still believe that when a completely unrelated country “supports terrorism,” and especially one that has had multiple regimes violently installed by the very countries you seem to position as victims here, while the US and Israel have been calling for war with Iran for like 40 years… and you still believe the *exact* same line that got us into the utter bullshit that was the Iraq war? Do you even consider that what you hear on the news might not be the truth, but just what is most convenient for the establishment?
I was so worried about how Iran was 2-3 years away from a nuclear bomb in 1992. Then how they were 2-3 years away every year since was even crazier. Can’t believe we dodged that bullet for 33 years thanks to our diligent, honest, and hard working govt. Again, how old are you?
Do you actually believe the nonsense “count down to the end of the world” war mongering that has persisted by multiple regimes who have been trying to start a war with Iran for 40 years, during which the same countries violently installed their own regimes and have been f*ckng with every govt in the region for more than half a century? Don’t honestly still believe their elementary school narrative about why this is all happening? There’s just some super bad guys who want a super bad bomb and the heroes have to stop them?
I’ll tell you very simply I think they are full of shit. Like they were for every single war for my entire life and for all of them for 20 years before I was born. And I can’t imagine someone still just taking them at their word considering that not once has it held up. Literally not a single time.
I might be missing what you’re really getting at here. Let’s be more specific: Do you think Iran has zero nuclear ambitions? And if they achieved them, would a theocracy with nuclear weapons concern you at all? Does Western governments dishonesty somehow make Iranian threats less real?
They definitely are now Before they wanted to have the capability of developing a nuke as a deterrent so Israel and the US wouldn’t do to them what they did to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen. Gaddafi gave up their nuclear weapons program and look at what they did to him. Iran is not dumb. Without a nuclear deterrent they are as good as cooked. Israel wants total control and domination of the region. Iran is the last one standing
Maybe stop with the endless aggressive wars, overthrowing elected regimes, funding violent extremist groups, and supporting and installing tyrants across the Middle East?… I don’t know maybe that’s an option?
As I said, I genuinely don’t know enough about Iraq to comment. But help me understand your perspective on Iran - are their nuclear ambitions a conspiracy in your opinion ? What’s the exact reason it doesn’t seem to concern you?
Diplomacy went out the window the moment Israel did the air strikes on Thursday They are in a full blown war, so the path forward is for one side to defeat the other.
No one “invented” radical islamism. Factions in Islam became radicalized from US and Israeli actions in the region, but I’m not sure to what extent Bibi himself is responsible for
U.S. support for Syrian rebels contributed to the rise of ISIS. This lead to regional destabilization, a refugee crisis, and increased terrorism. Israel and the US helped ISIS and al-Qaeda take over Syria.
Didn’t know that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m describe myself as libertarian, even anarcho capitalist on a good day. It just doesn’t mean I can’t distinguish peaceful societies from non peaceful ones.
"Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian State has to support bolstering Hamas & transferring money to Hamas. This is part of our strategy to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank. It's impossible to reach an agreement with them, everyone knows this, but we control the height of the flame." ~Benjamin Netanyahu 2019
Idk man, what sources should I be using? You seem pretty confident I'm wrong.
Guy, you seem pretty heated on this issue. I really love your content, and listen to your show all the time. I just think on an issue this devisive it's good to remember theres always nuance and we never have a completely clear picture of the truth. All sides have incentive to lie. All sides have incentive to diminish their own role in things. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. All we can do is approximate justice based on what we think we know.
This is the sort of crap that annoys me more than anything. First I don’t even know what you are wanting me to answer, second I have a stupid busy life, especially right now, and I’m not a loser who spends every second of my day on social. Literally haven’t even been up here since yesterday.
Probably see you tomorrow. If you want to not be a “omgerd he didn’t respond 20 seconds later got em” and make a legitimate point that isn’t a “so you don’t want to invade another country indiscriminately!? Well what if they are super bad guys?” News vomit, you may do so under this post. But my desire to have a conversation with you has dropped significantly and you clearly have never even tried to look into this beyond whatever you heard on the news and I don’t feel like regurgitating something I’ve covered in a million different places here again for you. You may try though.
The inability to see clearly repeated asked questions (look above in the thread) while finding energy for insults is very disappointing for someone like you. True intellectual discourse demands patience, humility, and honest engagement with challenging ideas - not dismissive language about ‘losers.’ This is exactly the difference between constructive and destructive dialogue. Look
Demand I answer, play the “gotcha” game, then play the holier than thou card. Thanks anyway but telling me I have to answer you on Father’s Day is a great way to earn exactly what you’ve received.
Reducing complex questions to ‘news sheep vs enlightened skeptic’ is the real intellectual poverty. Reality exists between blind faith and total conspiracy. Understanding requires respectful dialogue, not dismissive labels. Your inability to engage without ad hominem attacks mirrors the dogma you project onto others.
Can you make it less cryptic? Don’t know what’s the gotcha game. There is also the option of just answering the questions, just as people do in intellectual dialogue.
Listen, my wife is sick, kids are crazy, I thought I was going to get this day to do a little work, and then I come up here for 5 minutes and have to respond to the most vapid News lineup talking points imaginable and then you acting like your ignorance of 40 years of regime change, CIA funding, the history of lies that have proliferated every single war we have been in since JFK’s murder, the explicit manipulation, and not even knowing that Netanyahu has been funding and helping Hamas, pushed me a little too far today. I’m not going to lay out the history of the Shah of Iran and everything in the Middle East which is so obviously the consequence of our horrific and incessant meddling, overthrowing democracies, installing tyrants, and directly funding terrorists of all kinds since before the days of Bush 1.0. Maybe I’ll come back to this, but I just don’t have the patience today. I got a little overheated and that’s my bad. I’m out of socials for a while though. Might come back to this later in the week. You can *easily* go do a little homework if you just want to look into any of the things mentioned above or pretend they don’t exist. Up to you.
Yes. I agree with a lot of what you say. I’m still wondering about your thoughts in the specific matter. Do you think Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons? And if they are, do you think it would be reasonable at some point to try to prevent it militarily?
Yes, can we agree, left, right, center, whatever that we don't want our money going to Israel?