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If you understand time is money, and you get to keep the money you earn, imagine how much time for road building you and your community would have?
You’re from SA right? If you are comfortable disclosing, are you still there? I’m interested what the temperature is on the ground with the proposed legislation on a ban on self custody after the passage of that 2023 piece of insidious legislation re: confiscation without compensation.
Hes on the right track, at least. Im sure hes had a lifetime of being conditioned to believe what he does. He just needs a bit of exposure to mises/rothbard and it would probably quickly click for him
it's fun to ride a speedy mobile, however the modern roads are made with blood of the earth, pumped out and poured unto the ground & into people's bodies, making an insulated toxic barbie world; i see lifeless bodies jogging in synthetic clothing on petroleum-laden gravel, blocking out the sun with sunglasses, ears plugged w/blutooth earbuds, totally disconnected from the earth & wasting their life thru constant tension... while thinking "this is self-care;" the living shud batch their petroleum-dependent tasks, limit the use of cheap government-sponsored services, and gradually phase it out; walk slowly, walk backwards, add a gentle sway into the walk, choose non-sprayed grass or rocky trails; wen a lifespan is indefinite, there are fewer reasons to hurry, and fewer major mistakes are made; in other words, choose life; image
SA government has been all about expropriation for much of the last 20 years. in 2006 i was working in an office with a man and his daughter at a health insurance company, i was doing database work. the girl was in the desk near me and told me about how it was being white in the late 90s/early 00s there, her father had a revolver he kept on his nightstand. his mother had a derringer on her garter. they were in australia because of that, but the mainstream media was saying nothing about how apartheid never ended but instead flipped polarity.
Currently not in SA atm but what I can tell you from my interactions with people on the ground is that whilst everyone is concerned and would prefer that the proposals from the central bank concerning self custody be dropped (which most likely they will) I don't think there is any serious Bitcoiner who will pay attention to this regulation if it does pass. Yes the noobs and the exchanges will definitely comply but as with most things in SA when silly things are passed as regs, people just carry on with their lives.
The ruling below by the high court is what got the central banksters to panic bigly and then propose this crazy self custody directive as a way of shutting the exits. With regards to non compliance, it's also partly a by product of having seen a ton of silly laws passed which were ignored lol but I'm sure truly free people everywhere don't comply with tyrannical regulations, even on your side of the pond 😁 That said, there is still an organized effort that also includes some of the exchanges (cz they know that P2P alternatives will replace them if they do nothing πŸ˜‚) to fight this proposal legally.
It is the most brain rotted line of thinking. We have lots of places out here in rural areas where they have little signs on streets that say "private road". Usually a small neighborhood with some houses, well maintained and in some miracle without the tax man this road managed to exist.
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Hofer99 2 days ago
Its a up hill battle. Not worth fighting. Can't fix stupid. Let's start our own country. Any island for sale out in the deep deep sea.
Or just any island that has enough property for sale to take a majority. Once you got that, you can legally make almost any place independent in most senses except in name.
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bulletbill22 2 days ago
Only the *Department of War* would require taxation for funding, because no one would voluntarily pay billions to genocide goatherds in central asia.
An insurance company that fails to protect its clients against theft or fire loses its customers to competitors
You don’t get it when your tied to the systems. That’s where the jab was so successful. It ties people to the centralised health system. Convenience ties you to big food and big tech. Poverty ties you to subsidies and government welfare and all the behavioural conditions that come with it. No easy answer, except walk the talk, letting others see what is possible. #bitcoin
People have no idea how fiat currency works. Government spending doesn't come from taxes. Taxes are used to control inflation. Government spending comes from new money New money is loaned by the government from the privately owned central bank. All the central banks are controlled by old money inbred banking families that have been funding both sides of every war for 2000 years
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Corban 2 days ago
I agree with you, but I invite you to think of things in terms of community instead of asset value. I think we need to re-imagine value not only outside of the dollar system, but outside of the monetary system altogether.
The elites don't possess a lot of money; they control a lot of money. They disrupt the free market and manipulate it to their will, wrongfully consuming what isn't theirs.
Exactly, and their CBDCs doesn't look promising either. We need an entire different system.
I'm working on a protocol that will allow communities to build their own parallel societies using crypto.
It can be a path of no return and a Pandora's box... In a sense it is good that some Western countries are legalistic following the law. I am of the opinion that we must do both, build the new world with intentional communities/charter cities independence and at the same time keep fighting to take back the institutions, mainstream culture and politics. Both tasks are extremely hard, but it must be done.
That extra 1/2 Billy was allocated for the data center under the new ballroom that originally touted as being privately funded…but has been passed by congress to be funded via $400,000,000 tax dollars. Who got the extra $100,000,000 that was approved for the DoW that has never passed an audit?
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orlan 2 days ago
can you elaborate? they are living there permanently? rural or urban?
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Hofer99 yesterday
The harder they push the sharper we become.
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